mette marit haakon
Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway

Royal Wedding Recollections – Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby & Crown Prince Haakon of Norway

On 25 August 2001, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway married Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby in Oslo Cathedral. They had met in 1999 through mutual friends but the match was not without controversy. Mette-Marit already had a four-year-old son named Marius from a previous relationship and she had reportedly used drugs and was a heavy partier. Haakon [read more]