{"id":2442833,"date":"2026-06-03T09:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2442833"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:07:11","slug":"princess-ingrid-alexandra-returns-to-norway-to-be-with-her-mother-as-concerns-grow-for-health-of-crown-princess-mette-marit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/princess-ingrid-alexandra-returns-to-norway-to-be-with-her-mother-as-concerns-grow-for-health-of-crown-princess-mette-marit\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Ingrid Alexandra returns to Norway to be with her mother as concerns grow for health of Crown Princess Mette-Marit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Princess Ingrid Alexandra was photographed at an Australian<br \/>\nairport on Tuesday afternoon as she cuts short her studies to<br \/>\nreturn home to her ailing mother.<\/p>\n<p>As Crown Princess Mette-Marit\u2019s health deteriorates due to the<br \/>\neffects of chronic pulmonary fibrosis, her only daughter has chosen<br \/>\nto cut short her time at the University of Sydney to be with<br \/>\nher.<\/p>\n<p>Crown Prince Haakon announced the news in Tokyo, where he is<br \/>\ncurrently on an official visit. <em>\u201cShe plans to come home soon.<br \/>\nIt has to do with the family situation. She wants to be with her<br \/>\nmother,\u201d<\/em> he told reporters.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">He added that<br \/>\nPrincess Ingrid Alexandra does plan to return to the University of<br \/>\nSydney at some point in the future, but could not pinpoint how long<br \/>\nshe\u2019ll be back in Norway. <em>\u201cHow long she will stay home, we will<br \/>\nhave to come back to that.\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>The future queen is a first-year student in Sydney, reading for<br \/>\na bachelor\u2019s degree in international relations and political<br \/>\neconomy.<\/p>\n<p>Crown Prince Haakon also cut short his visit to Tokyo so he<br \/>\ncould return home to his wife earlier. His Japanese visit was<br \/>\noriginally slated for 1-4 June but was reduced by a day to<br \/>\naccommodate his need to return home.<\/p>\n<p>Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been photographed in recent<br \/>\nmonths with a nasal cannula and an oxygen tank, and does not attend<br \/>\nmany royal engagements due to her health.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before the holidays last December, the Norwegian Royal<br \/>\nCourt announced that her condition has deteriorated to the point<br \/>\nthat a lung transplant is on the table, though no announcements<br \/>\nhave been made on if she is currently on a transplant list.<\/p>\n<p>Crown Prince Haakon <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/nyheter\/kronprinsen-om-kronprinsessens-helse_-_-jeg-synes-at-hun-har-blitt-en-del-darligere-i-det-siste-1.17897359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed how seriously ill his wife<br \/>\nis to reporters<\/a> at the end of May, noting that her health had<br \/>\n<em>\u201cdeteriorated recently\u201d<\/em> and that it was up to her medical<br \/>\nteam to decide when to pursue a lung transplant. <em>\u201cThey\u2019re the<br \/>\nones who decide when it should happen, when it\u2019s right. But I think<br \/>\nshe\u2019s gotten a lot worse lately, unfortunately.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a trying few months for the Norwegian Royal Family,<br \/>\nhealth-wise, as both Queen Sonja and Princess Astrid were<br \/>\nhospitalised with health issues. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/royal-news\/queen-sonja-hospital-217862\/\"><br \/>\nQueen Sonja was admitted to the Rikshospitalet with heart<br \/>\nfibrillations and heart failure<\/a> last week but has since been<br \/>\nreleased and is carrying out light engagements.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/europe\/norway\/princess-astrid-hospital-217768\/\"><br \/>\nPrincess Astrid was also admitted to the Rikshospitalet<\/a> for<br \/>\nheart failure in mid-May and had previously been hospitalised in<br \/>\nMarch for pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"tbmarker\"\/>  <\/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 royalcentral.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princess Ingrid Alexandra was photographed at an Australian airport on Tuesday afternoon as she cuts short her studies to return home to her ailing mother. As Crown Princess Mette-Marit\u2019s health deteriorates due to the effects of chronic pulmonary fibrosis, her only daughter has chosen to cut short her time at the University of Sydney to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2442834,"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-2442833","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\/06\/Princess-Ingrid-Alexandra-returns-to-Norway-to-be-with-her.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442833","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=2442833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442835,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442833\/revisions\/2442835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}