Today, we focus Queen Sonja of Norway, one the oldest of our current Queens Consort, a distinction she has held since 1993 when the death of King Baudoin of Belgium left his Queen Fabiola a widow. However, she is just months older than former Queen Paola of Belgium (Baudoin's sister-in-law) and not quite a year and a half older than Queen Emerita Sofia of Spain.
Born as Sonja Haraldsen, the daughter of an Oslo merchant, she had to wait a long time for her Prince (now King) Harald. It took years for her husband to convince his father, the late King Olav, to let him marry a commoner. When they finally married, she immediately became Norway's first lady because Olav's wife had died long before he became king. Sonja and Harald have two children and five grandchildren.
MISS SONJA HARALDSEN
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS SONJA THE CROWN PRINCESS OF NORWAY
HER MAJESTY SONJA THE QUEEN OF NORWAY
HER MAJESTY AS MOTHER
HER MAJESTY AS GRANDMOTHER
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