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As if Norway\u2019s royal family and staff don\u2019t have enough other problems, another one came along this week: A major hot water leak at the Royal Palace in Oslo.<\/strong><\/p>\n The palace itself reported that the leak<\/strong> in the early morning hours of Tuesday began on the third floor of the palace and sent hot water running down to the floor below. The leak set off fire alarms in the middle of the night, which in turn summoned fire trucks, police, officials from the state agency in charge of public property (Statsbygg)<\/em> and the royal guards.<\/p>\n Palace officials said the situation \u201cwas quickly brought under control\u201d and emergency crews withdrew, but building experts remained to monitor the situation throughout the night. The leak was blamed on the \u201cloosening of a connection to a hot water pipe.\u201d<\/p>\n Preliminary evaluations indicate that damage was \u201climited,\u201d with \u201cno major damage\u201d to items of historic value. Palace staff and officials from Statsbygg were continuing their damage assessment in cooperation with \u201crelevant professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n The leak and nighttime disruption<\/strong> didn\u2019t force any changes in the official programs for King Harald V and Queen Sonja, both of whom are 88 years old. They\u2019ve been dealing with a series of royal scandals over the past few years, most recently regarding their step-grandson Marius Borg H\u00f8iby\u2019s criminal trial in the Oslo County Court<\/a> and revelations of his mother Crown Princess Mette-Marit\u2019s extensive correspondence<\/a> with the late US billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n The king and queen, meanwhile, have recently returned from the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina. King Harald went on to formally open the \u201cTotal Defense Year 2026\u201d in Oslo on Wednesday and then welcomed the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to an audience at the palace before he and Queen Sonja hosted a palace luncheon for Abbas on Wednesday. Water systems were clearly back in operation at the palace that dates from the mid-1800s.<\/p>\n NewsinEnglish.no staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newsinenglish.no \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As if Norway\u2019s royal family and staff don\u2019t have enough other problems, another one came along this week: A major hot water leak at the Royal Palace in Oslo. A hot water leak at the Royal Palace in Oslo set off alarms in the middle of the night earlier this week. PHOTO: NewsinEnglish.no\/Morten M\u00f8st The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2279020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Royal-Palace-hit-by-water-leak.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279021,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279019\/revisions\/2279021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}