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Updated · BBC.com · Sep 9
30 Royals Honor King Harald V at Oslo Funeral as Norway Ends 13 Days of Mourning
Updated
Updated · BBC.com · Sep 9

30 Royals Honor King Harald V at Oslo Funeral as Norway Ends 13 Days of Mourning

3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Sep 9

Summary

  • Thousands lined Oslo's streets as King Harald V's coffin traveled from the royal palace to Oslo Cathedral, where Norway held a nationwide minute of silence before his burial.
  • 30 royal figures and several heads of state, including Prince William, Volodymyr Zelensky and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, attended the funeral for the monarch who died at 89 after 35 years on the throne.
  • King Haakon VIII, Queen Mette-Marit and Queen Sonja led the family mourning; Sonja placed a red rose on the coffin, and four F-35 jets later flew a missing-man formation over the cathedral.
  • At Akershus Fortress, Harald was laid to rest beside earlier Norwegian royals, after which flags were raised and the new royal family greeted tens of thousands from the palace balcony.
  • Harald was widely seen as a modernizing, popular king, and the ceremony closed a national mourning period that also marked the public transition to Haakon's reign.

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