Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Haakon Magnus of Norway was born July 20, 1973 in Oslo. He is the only son of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Norway, Harald V and Sonja. His godparents include King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom.
Haakon served in the Royal Norwegian Navy undertaking his first-level officer's education at the Norwegian Naval Academy, followed by a year aboard missile torpedo boats and other vessels. He then went abroad, receiving a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. Haakon later attended lectures at the University of Oslo and the London School of Economics, as well as completing the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affair's civil servant introductory course in 2001.
He married single mother Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby on August 25, 2001, who has since then been known as Crown Princess Mette-Marit. Their daughter, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, was born January 21, 2004, and is second in succession to the Norwegian throne.
Beginning Tuesday afternoon November 25, 2003, and ending in the evening of 12 April, 2004, Crown Prince Haakon was the country's regent, during the King's treatment for cancer and the following convalescence period.
