Overview
- The Amandus Film Festival, a major youth film event in Lillehammer, ended its long-running collaboration with Crown Princess Mette-Marit after a formal board review.
- Leaders said they tracked months of coverage, considered her March NRK interview, and concluded after this year’s festival that the patronage no longer aligned with their mission.
- Mette-Marit said she understands if organizations end or pause her patronage and stressed that she still wants to contribute to their work.
- The decision follows similar steps by Sex and Society, Fokus, the Norwegian Library Association, and the Council for Mental Health, although the princess retains 18 other patronages.
- The setback comes during sustained pressure on her public standing, including her son Marius Borg Høiby’s ongoing criminal case and her chronic lung condition diagnosed in 2018.