Getting plastered
Getting plastered
Poor old Mette-Marit! She came back from the Olympics and promptly keeled over with pneumonia, and no sooner has she recovered from that than she's broken her ankle on a skiing trip. It's not all fun being married to the heir to the Norwegian throne, you know.
But I think the most entertaining thing about these stories is the way that Crown-Prince Haakon himself isn't in them. For Aftonbladet, at least, he's been relegated to the status of a plot-device in the Mette-Marit story.
That and the stone-walling of the long-suffering court chief spokespersons, who clearly spend a great deal of time not-answering stupid questions from journalists. For example, in the pneumonia story above it turns out Mette-Marit had been given antibiotics intravenously. This is normally done for the elderly or very young; the most vulnerable, in other words, not robust young media darlings. Aftonbladet thought about this for about 5 milliseconds, jumped to conclusions and ran the story with the banner headline "Mette-Marit �r gravid." (M-M is pregnant.)
In response to a direct question the court spokesman can only say
"Jag har inga fler upplysningar att ge." which translates as "Go away
and leave me alone, you silly tabloid journalist."