Overview
- Crown Princess Mette-Marit greeted Norway’s Paralympic delegation at the Oslo palace on Friday wearing a nasal cannula connected to an oxygen device carried by staff.
- She has pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that scars lung tissue and makes breathing hard, and she was first diagnosed in 2018.
- The Royal Court said in December that tests showed a clear worsening of her condition and that she is being evaluated for a possible lung transplant.
- A palace spokesperson told NRK in March that her health had deteriorated, which has reduced her public schedule this year.
- The family faces added scrutiny from documents naming her past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and from the ongoing rape trial of her son, which he denies.