‘It’s an advantage’: King Harald V defends Princess Ingrid Alexandra’s decision to study abroad

It is worth noting that the royal family would not have expected Princess Ingrid Alexandra to begin full-time public-facing duties – in her pursuit of international studies, she is following in an illustrious tradition. Her father, Crown Prince Haakon, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999, before reading for an MSc in development studies at the London School of Economics in 2003. King Harald himself opted for the University of Oxford, studying social science,…