Prince William is set to travel to Oslo on Wednesday to attend the funeral of King Harald V of Norway, according to an announcement from Buckingham Palace. The Prince of Wales will be representing his father, King Charles, at the service.<\/p>\n
Princess Anne will also be present, attending in a personal capacity as she serves as the godmother to Norway\u2019s new monarch, King Haakon VIII. Her participation highlights the close familial ties between the British and Norwegian royal houses.<\/p>\n
King Harald, who passed away last month at the age of 89, reigned for 35 years and was widely celebrated as a modernizing and popular figure. Large crowds are anticipated for the farewell on September 9, with thousands having already queued to pay their respects during his lying in state at the Royal Palace chapel.<\/p>\n
The funeral procession will be followed by a service at Oslo Cathedral, attended by Queen Sonja, members of the Norwegian royal family, and other European royals. King Harald will subsequently be laid to rest in a private ceremony at the royal mausoleum within Akershus Fortress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Buckingham Palace confirms Prince William and Princess Anne will attend King Harald V’s funeral in Oslo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39,2259,194,2258,11,10],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-breaking","tag-funeral","tag-norway","tag-royalty","tag-uk","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}