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Continuation of post 60 where I translated the VG article's first 10 of King Harald's 80 years:
This is a subscription article and I will not quote it (as I did with the first 10), but the content is available on other Norwegian websites and I already know what happened, so I see no problem with posting it here.
1948 (11 years): One of the prince's hobbies are model airplane building.
1949 (12 years): Prince Harald participates in school ski races together with classmates from Smestad school.
1950 (13 years): Prince Harald celebrates his 13th birthday together with classmates from Smestad school.
1951 (14 years): Prince Harald along with Crown Prince Olav and King Haakon is present when Hjalmar Andersen is blinded by a flash during the European Speed Skating Championships at Bislett and falls at the 10,000 metres. It was decided to let Andersen run again, and he won.
1952 (15 years): He begins at Oslo Cathedral School in August.
1953 (16 years): Prince Harald is confirmed alone in the Palace Chapel at Akershus.
1954 (17 years): Amidst the vulnerable teen years he loses his mother, Crown Princess Märtha.
1955 (18 years) Prince Harald is russ in May (traditional celebration for Norwegian high school students in their final spring semester) Later that year he starts training in the Armed Forces.
1956 (19 years) Graduated from the Officer Candidate School at Trandum.
1957 (20 years): King Haakon dies on September 21. Olav becomes king, and Harald becomes crown prince. That same year, he starts at the Military Academy
This is a subscription article and I will not quote it (as I did with the first 10), but the content is available on other Norwegian websites and I already know what happened, so I see no problem with posting it here.
1948 (11 years): One of the prince's hobbies are model airplane building.
1949 (12 years): Prince Harald participates in school ski races together with classmates from Smestad school.
1950 (13 years): Prince Harald celebrates his 13th birthday together with classmates from Smestad school.
1951 (14 years): Prince Harald along with Crown Prince Olav and King Haakon is present when Hjalmar Andersen is blinded by a flash during the European Speed Skating Championships at Bislett and falls at the 10,000 metres. It was decided to let Andersen run again, and he won.
1952 (15 years): He begins at Oslo Cathedral School in August.
1953 (16 years): Prince Harald is confirmed alone in the Palace Chapel at Akershus.
1954 (17 years): Amidst the vulnerable teen years he loses his mother, Crown Princess Märtha.
1955 (18 years) Prince Harald is russ in May (traditional celebration for Norwegian high school students in their final spring semester) Later that year he starts training in the Armed Forces.
1956 (19 years) Graduated from the Officer Candidate School at Trandum.
1957 (20 years): King Haakon dies on September 21. Olav becomes king, and Harald becomes crown prince. That same year, he starts at the Military Academy