by Susan Flantzer © Unofficial Royalty 2014
Prince Sverre Magnus was born on December 3, 2005, at Rikshospitalet University Hospital in Oslo, Norway. He is the youngest of the two children of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and his wife Crown Princess Mette-Marit (née Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby), and one of the five grandchildren of King Harald V of Norway. The prince is third in the line of succession to the Norwegian throne, behind his father and sister.
Prince Sverre Magnus’s family, 2022: Crown Princess Mette-Marit, Prince Sverre Magnus, Crown Prince Haakon, Princess Ingrid Alexandra
Prince Sverre Magnus has an older sister:
- Princess Ingrid Alexandra (born 2004)
He also has an older half-brother, the son of his mother and Morten Borg:
- Marius Borg Høiby (born 1997)
Christening of Prince Sverre Magnus; Photo Credit – http://www.royalcourt.no, photographer: Tor Richardsen / Scanpix
Prince Sverre Magnus was christened on March 6, 2006, at the chapel in the Royal Palace in Oslo. His godparents were:
- Queen Sonja of Norway (his paternal grandmother)
- Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (then Princess Máxima, born Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti)
- Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece
- Princess Rosario of Bulgaria (wife of Prince Kyril of Bulgaria, born María del Rosario Nadal y Fuster de Puigdorfila)
- Espen Høiby (his maternal uncle)
- Bjørn Steinsland (his father’s friend)
- Marianne Gjellestad (his mother’s friend)
In the autumn of 2007, Sverre Magnus began attending preschool in Asker, Norway, where he lives with his family at Skaugum, the official residence of his parents, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Norway. In 2011 he began attending Jansløkka Elementary School, a local state school attended by his sister and half-brother. From 2014 to 2021, Sverre attended Oslo Montessori school. He began attending the Elvebakken Upper Secondary School in Oslo in 2021.
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