History has just been made with a signature 🇳🇴 ✍️
Today, Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra signed her own written oath as heir to the Norwegian throne, a first in more ways than one.
She’s the first heir in modern Norwegian history to take this oath as an adult.
Past heirs, including her father and grandfather, were minors when their fathers became king, so they swore in on their 18th birthdays instead
Because Ingrid was already 22 when her grandfather, King Harald V, passed away, the Constitution required her to sign a formal written declaration before the Storting right away.
She’s also the first royal actually shaped by Norway’s 1990 shift to gender-equal succession, meaning she was never bumped down the line when her younger brother, Prince Sverre Magnus, was born.
When she eventually takes the throne, she’ll be Norway’s first reigning queen in roughly 600 years, since Queen Margaret in 1412.
And this isn’t just symbolic. With her signature, Ingrid now has real constitutional standing: she can attend cabinet meetings and step in as regent whenever her father is traveling, ill, or otherwise unavailable, the same role he once filled for King Harald.