00:00Now that King Harold has died, his son, Crown Prince Håkon, automatically becomes king.
00:05There will be no formal coronation.
00:07Håkon is not going to have a crown placed on his head because Norway abolished coronations in 1908.
00:13There's going to be several simple and dignified events to mark the passing of King Harold, who had been king
00:19since 1991.
00:20This is a country that is quite egalitarian in spirit.
00:24So it's not going to be the kind of pageantry that people would have seen with the passing of Queen
00:31Elizabeth of England.
00:33Håkon is kind of the reluctant prince who for a very long time did not really embrace being a royal.
00:40He didn't want to talk about it for a very long time.
00:42At school, he was very anxious about it.
00:45When he came to go to university, he did not follow in his father and grandfather's footsteps.
00:51And usually you would go to Oxford or Cambridge.
00:54He went to the United States instead.
00:56He went to Berkeley in California.
00:58He fell in love with surfing.
00:59Crown Princess Mithemarit has also been at the center of fresh controversy about her links to the late American convictic
01:08sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
01:10She visited his house in Florida.
01:15She has expressed her regret at having friendly ties with him.
01:37She basically went to Berkeley in Columbus.
01:49And he presented his house in California.
02:02You're the best.
