{"id":2206806,"date":"2025-12-20T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2206806"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:08:25","slug":"royal-house-shares-heartbreaking-health-update-on-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royal-house-shares-heartbreaking-health-update-on-princess\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal house shares heartbreaking health update on princess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"norender-embeds medium-insert-images fImageContainer ui-sortable\" bis_skin_checked=\"1\">\n<figure contenteditable=\"false\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Norway&#8217;s Crown Princess Mette-Marit is expected to undergo a lung transplant following a deterioration of her health in recent months, the royal family said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old wife of Crown Prince Haakon, the heir to the Norwegian throne, was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis in 2018, a chronic disease that causes scarring in the lungs and leads to a reduced oxygen uptake.<\/p>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-images norender-embeds ui-sortable\" bis_skin_checked=\"1\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 977 \/ 799;\">\n<figure contenteditable=\"false\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/updates\/2025-12-20\/1385584_665841_norway_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Royal house shares heartbreaking health update on princess\" width=\"977\" height=\"799\"\/><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tests performed in recent months showed a clear negative development in the crown princess&#8217;s health, the palace said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had hoped to keep this illness in check with medicines, and the progression has been quite slow, but now it&#8217;s gone more rapidly than both I and the doctors had anticipated,&#8221; Mette-Marit told public broadcaster NRK.<\/p>\n<p>It has not yet been decided when she will be placed on the transplant waiting list, the palace said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are approaching the time when a lung transplant must be performed, and we are making the necessary preparations so that it will be possible when that time comes,&#8221; Professor Are Martin Holm of the Oslo University Hospital&#8217;s pulmonary unit said in the same statement.<\/p>\n<p>Crown Prince Haakon said the family had noticed the change in Mette-Marit&#8217;s condition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen that she is struggling more to breathe,&#8221; Haakon told NRK in the joint interview with his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Mette-Marit was 25, an unmarried single mother and a commoner when she met Haakon at a music festival in 1999, the beginning of an unlikely royal romance that started with a media furore and ended up winning over the bulk of the nation\u2014Web Desk\/Reuters\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thenews.com.pk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway&#8217;s Crown Princess Mette-Marit is expected to undergo a lung transplant following a deterioration of her health in recent months, the royal family said on Friday. 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