Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway
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Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway (born 3 December 2005 in Oslo) is the second child of Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway and the third for Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway. He has one older half-brother, Marius and an older sister, Princess Ingrid Alexandra.
He is third in the line of succession to the Norwegian Throne, after his father and his older sister. As distant cousins of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the Norwegian royals are also in the line of succession to the British Throne; but Sverre Magnus ranks ahead of his sister there since the UK uses male-preference primogeniture.
The prince's name was communicated in a council of state by his grandfather King Harald V on December 5, 2005; at the same time it was announced that, in a break with tradition, he would not be styled His Royal Highness from birth. It may be correct to expect that when his father succeeds as King Haakon VIII of Norway, he will become His Royal Highness Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway.
Both his names have a royal history; Sverre of Norway reigned in the 12th century, and Magnus has been the name of several Norwegian monarchs. Magnus is also part of the baby's father's name.
On 7 February 2006, the two-month old prince was rushed to the Rikshospitalet in Oslo and diagnosed with gastric flu, a respiratory infection, and was having problems taking nourishment. He remained overnight, but as of 14 February 2006 has returned home and made a full recovery. The baby had been admitted to Rikshospitalet the previous week with stomach trouble.
Prince Sverre Magnus was christened on 4 March 2006 by Bishop Ole Christian Kvarme. He had seven godparents: his grandmother Queen Sonja, Crown Princess Maxima of the Netherlands, Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, Princess Rosario of Bulgaria, Mette-Marit's brother Espen Høiby and the crown couple's friends Bjørn Steinsland and Marianne Gjellestad. His older sister, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, had six godparents, including a king and three heirs to thrones.
Besides the godparents, several royal guests attended the christening, including Denmark's Queen Margrethe, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, and Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, and Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Parliament President Thorbjørn Jagland.
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