Crown Regalia

Following

our

interior

tour

of

the

cathedral,





we
entered


the
courtyard


of the
Archbishop's
Palace.



The museum here holds the Norwegian crown jewels.

A new exhibition of the Crown Regalia opened in 2006 with King Harald V, Crown Prince Haakon Magnus and Princess Ingrid Alexandra representing the Royal Norwegian lineage.

The princess is the first female heir of the Norwegian throne.

(To illustrate how "real" Norway's royal family is, I love to tell the story about how my host mom's cousin was Prince Haakon Magnus' ninth-grade teacher in the regular public school in Oslo while I was an exchange student in 1983-84. At the time, Brita called the prince a handsome young man with a sense of humor.)