Published 19.06
Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit underwent a lung transplant on Wednesday. Queen Sonja is now the first royal to speak out about the operation.
– It is absolutely fantastic. It is fantastic that it has gone so well in this way, says the queen to NRK.
The Crown Princess has been ill with pulmonary fibrosis since 2018 and her condition has worsened in recent months. On June 5, the news came that she had been put on the waiting list for a transplant.