Crown Prince ss Mette-Marit
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Crown Princess
Mette-Marit was born on August 19th, 1973 as Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby. She was born in
Kristiansand.
Mette-Marit is the youngest child of Sven Olav Bjarte Høiby and Marit Tjessem. She has two brothers and one sister: Espen, Per and Kristin.
The Crown Princess grew up in Kristiansand. When she was eleven years old her parents divorced, she stayed with her mother.
Mette-Marit studied at the Oderness Gymnasium, she also went to Australia for half a year to study, before finishing high school at kathedralschool in Kristiansand in 1994.
During the following years, Mette-Marit tried several studies and was frequently seen in the Oslo party scene, which involded drugs and alcohol.
On January 13th, 1997 she gave birth to Marius Borg Høiby, her son with Morton Borg, who has been convicted of assault and drugs dealing.
The birth of her son changed Mette-Marit's live. As a single mother, she brought up her son, worked as a waitress and enrolled at Oslo university again.
In 1999 she met Haakon at a concert in Kristiansand. After a year, the went living together. The couple got engaged on December 1st, 2000 and married on August 25th the next year.
The crown princess is fond of cultur, art, music and reading.
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