Happy anniversary Haakon & Mette-Marit!
Today is the anniversary of Prince Haakon and Mette-Marit Tjessem-Hoiby of Norway – check out this beautiful wedding cake!
Mette-Marit is an unlikely princess – a single mother whose ex-husband was in prison for assault and cocaine possession when she married Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, 9 years ago today.
A week before the wedding they had both gone on national television to talk about her wild past, to make sure it did not become an issue after they were married. Mette-Marit, an exchange student in Australia for six months during high school, apologized for her past and spoke out against drug use.
Haakon and Mette-Marit met at the Quart Festival, Norway’s largest rock concert, where they were both checking out such Festival headliners as the Roots, Fatboy Slim, Happy Mondays, Garbage, Massive Attack, and Blur.
Mette-Marit has had two more children, a daughter and a son, with Haakon. In 2008 she released a CD, ‘Sorgen og gleden’, of religious psalms, and has given much of her time to campaigning for Aids research.
There is a great article about Haakon here and a nice account of their wedding here if you are interested in reading more!
