Mette-Marit of Norway as Meghan Markle: «The first times at court? Very hard”

In August 2001, marrying Mette Marit, Haakon of Norway, against all prejudices, he brought the princess of scandals to court with a stormy past gives rebellious punk (“My daughter kept going around dancing, padded with drugsHis father said at the time) e a son had by a former drug dealer: Marius Borg, at the time 4 years. No one considered her a fit bride for a future king. A few days from the royal wedding, conservative newspapers – supported by a good chunk of public opinion – they continued undaunted to attack the future princess, a former waitress in a restaurant, a former clerk in a clothing store, an easy target for all sorts of malice.

Twenty years have passed since then. Today Mette Marit is a future queen consort who together with Haakon has given birth to two other children: Ingrid Alexandra – which one day will be sovereign, the first woman after Margaret I who died in 1412 – e Sverre Magnus. But only now do we discover that the princess, entering the court, suffered as and perhaps more than Meghan Markle media attacks. “If I think back to my early days with Haakon, I still feel like throwing up. It was really hard. Recently some TV shows showed some pictures of the royal family that also show my early years at court. I can’t watch them, ”Mette Marit confessed in an NRK podcast.

Meghan is suing the British tabloids who invaded her privacy. Obtaining, in recent days, an important victory against the Mail on Sunday who had published excerpts from the private letter sent to father Thomas in 2018. Mette Marit endured everything in silence. And today he does not feel a grudge for the newspapers that in the early 2000s competed to spread bad things on the bill: “Simply, people needed something to talk about“. After all, she admits, that difficult period made her stronger: “Later I promised myself that I would never be ashamed of anything again».