{"id":35933,"date":"2026-09-11T15:28:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=35933"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:28:51","slug":"norways-princess-astrid-dies-two-days-after-funeral-of-brother-king-harald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=35933","title":{"rendered":"Norway&#8217;s Princess Astrid dies two days after funeral of brother King Harald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Norway\u2019s Princess Astrid, the older sister of the late King Harald, died on Friday at the age of 94, the Norwegian Royal Palace said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Aunt Astrid was an important source of support for King Harald and the rest of our family. We learned a great deal from her, and she was never afraid to speak her mind,&#8221; King Haakon VIII \u2060said \u200bin the \u200bstatement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Her passing is a great loss to us. We will miss her.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The King added that Princess Astrid had stepped into the role of First Lady at just 22 following the death of his grandmother, Crown Princess Martha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said she was particularly committed to caring for and including the most vulnerable members of society and carried out her duties with loyalty, dedication and \u201can infectious sense of humour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway\u2019s Princess Astrid, the older sister of the late King Harald, died on Friday at the age of 94, the Norwegian Royal Palace said in a statement. &#8220;Aunt Astrid was an important source of support for King Harald and the rest of our family. We learned a great deal from her, and she was never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35935,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35933\/revisions\/35935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}