Overview
- Rikshospitalet clinicians said doctors have recorded a marked recent increase in scarring and a clear fall in lung function, prompting the decision to list the 52‑year‑old princess for a lung transplant.
- Mette‑Marit is using supplemental oxygen in daily life and will be unable to carry out official engagements while she awaits a donor and possible surgery.
- Finding a transplant depends on a compatible donor lung and on her relative priority among other patients, so clinicians warned that the timing of any operation is unpredictable.
- Close family returned to Oslo, with Princess Ingrid Alexandra staying through the autumn and Crown Prince Haakon trimming foreign travel as the couple postponed anniversary plans and other state visits.
- Her condition follows a 2018 diagnosis of a rare pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that causes irreversible lung scarring, and the household is managing the medical crisis alongside ongoing legal and reputational strains linked to her son.