OSLO: Mette-Marit was 25, an unmarried single mother and a commoner when she met Norway's then Crown Prince Haakon at the Quart music festival in her home city of Kristiansand in 1999."I just looked at her. She was like a light," Haakon - who became king on Friday (Aug 28) - wrote in his autobiography.

La mujer que tuvo que defender su pasado antes de casarse con el heredero afronta ahora su nueva etapa al frente de la Corona junto a Haakon, rodeada de importantes desafíos…

The life of Norway's new Queen Mette-Marit was once considered a fairytale, but a lung transplant, her son's rape conviction and her friendship with convicted US sex offender…