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Norway?s princess gives birth to first royal child
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Norway?s princess gives birth to first royal child
Norway?s Crown Princess Mette-Marit gave birth yesterday to a princess who is in line to become the nation?s first reigning queen in more than 600 years.
The girl, a great great great great granddaughter of Britain?s Queen Victoria, was born at 9:14 a.m. (0814 GMT) at Oslo?s National Hospital and is second in line to the throne after her father Crown Prince Haakon, 30.
She has an older half brother, seven-year-old Marius, who is Mette-Marit?s son from a former relationship and is not part of the royal line.
?All is well with mother and child,? the palace said in a statement. Haakon attended the birth.
The new-born is set to be Norway?s first female head of state and monarch since Danish Queen Margrete, a widow, ruled over Norway, Sweden and Denmark from 1388-1412. She would be the first Norwegian-born woman to head the country.
Other Norwegian queens, like King Harald?s wife Sonja, have married into the monarchy. Haakon upset some traditional royalists in 2001 when he married Mette-Marit, who admitted just before the wedding to a wild past attending parties where drug-taking was common.
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