The Norwegian royal family attended a memorial service at Asker Church, southwest of Oslo, as Norwegians gathered at churches across the country Sunday to mourn the death of King Harald V, who died Friday at age 89. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.
Tens of thousands have left flowers, cards and candles outside the royal palace in Oslo, where the king's coffin arrived Friday from the hospital.
King Harald's coffin arrived at the Royal Palace from the National Hospital, where he died on Friday morning. Harald, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of Norway and refused a string of potential brides from European nobility so he could marry his longtime sweetheart, died Friday at the National Hospital in Oslo, the palace said. He died at 6:35 a.m local time.
King Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen to marry his school sweetheart, died Friday. He was 89.
King Harald V of Norway and his wife Sonja leave the Notre Dame cathedral after attending at the funeral of the Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, in Luxembourg, on May 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Norway's King Harald arrives at a central London hotel for a pre-royal wedding dinner hosted by Lady Elizabeth Anson and attended by members of the British royal family and foreign royal families, in London, on April, 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
The Norwegian royal family attended a memorial service at Asker Church, southwest of Oslo as Norwegians gathered at churches across the country Sunday to mourn the death of King Harald V, who died Friday at age 89. Tens of thousands have left flowers, cards and candles outside the royal palace in Oslo, where the king's coffin arrived Friday from the hospital.