{"id":717113,"date":"2026-06-05T14:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/717113\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:39:13","slug":"norwegian-princess-studying-at-sydney-uni-returns-home-on-exchange-as-her-mothers-health-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/717113\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian princess studying at Sydney uni returns home on exchange as her mother\u2019s health worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, a student at the University of Sydney, will spend next semester on exchange in her home town of Oslo as her mother\u2019s health worsens.<\/p>\n

Alexandra is studying a bachelor of arts focused on international relations and political economy at the sandstone institution. She has been living on campus at St Andrews College since August.<\/p>\n

\"PrincessPrincess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway in Surry Hills on Norwegian National Day, May 17.Edwina Pickles<\/p>\n

Last month, she made her first official appearance as a royal in Sydney as she led the local march for Syttende Mai (May 17), Norway\u2019s National Day, marking when its constitution was signed in 1814.<\/p>\n

The princess will remain a University of Sydney student but she will study in Norway as an exchange student for the second half of 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to be closer to her family, Princess Ingrid Alexandra has returned to Norway and will spend the autumn semester of 2026 as an exchange student at the University of Oslo,\u201d said the Norwegian palace press office on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this week, a man who had sent Alexandra a card \u201casking for friendship\u201d was taken into police custody over an altercation with a photographer moments after being banned from contacting the 22-year-old heir to the throne in Newtown Local Court.<\/p>\n

The princess, who is second in line to Norway\u2019s throne, this week returned home to be with Crown Princess Mette-Marit, who has been placed on the waitlist for a transplant following a serious progression of her lung disease.<\/p>\n

Beyond the Crown Princess\u2019 health, the Norwegian royal family faces trouble on several fronts.<\/p>\n

Emails between Mette-Marit and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein between 2011 and 2014 show her calling him \u201csweetheart\u201d in one piece of correspondence; in another, she says \u201cyou always make me smile\u201d. She also stayed at his Florida home.<\/p>\n

In a television appearance after the Epstein files revealed the relationship between the two, Mette-Marit said she wished she had never met him and that she should have examined Epstein\u2019s background more closely.<\/p>\n

Ingrid Alexandra\u2019s half brother, Marius Borg H\u00f8iby, this year stood trial accused of rape and physical abuse against four women. A verdict is due in June.<\/p>\n

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