Queen Mette-Marit attends amid health struggles; royal family faces ongoing challenges

Norway will bid its final farewell to King Harald V with a funeral paying tribute to the 35-year reign of the popular monarch who died on Aug. 28, aged 89

Harald was Europe’s oldest monarch and had modernized the royal house, but refused to follow in the footsteps of other aging monarchs who have abdicated in recent times.

The Prince of Wales will attend the funeral of King Harald V of Norway on Wednesday in Oslo