At 1:30 p.m. on Friday, chief physician and lung specialist Are Holm and heart and lung surgeon Arne Fiane will hold a press conference at Rikshospitalet because the Crown Princess has been placed on the waiting list for a transplant.
"The development of the Crown Princess's lung disease is serious. After an extensive medical assessment, she has now been placed on the list of people who will undergo a lung transplant as soon as possible," said chief physician and lung specialist Are Holm in a press release.
Mette-Marit is seriously ill with pulmonary fibrosis and has been prepared to receive new lungs since last winter.
The "Bonus Prince" wants to be released
As recently as Thursday, the Crown Princess, accompanied by her husband, Crown Prince Haakon, and her daughter, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, was at the National Hospital in Oslo. The reason for the hospital visit has still not been made public.
Mette-Marit’s son from a previous relationship, the so-called "bonus prince" Marius Borg Høiby, has been detained since February awaiting sentencing. He is charged with 40 crimes, including several counts of rape. He is now requesting to be released.
"Now that the situation is so critical for his mother, we have asked for him to be released," his lawyer Petar Sekulic tells VG .
The children stay in Europe
Ingrid Alexandra has chosen to travel home to Norway from her place of study in Sydney, Australia, and will study in Oslo this fall to be closer to her family. Her brother, Prince Sverre Magnus, will study in Europe this fall, but will travel home to Norway "when the situation requires it," the press release states.
Due to the Crown Princess's health condition, she will not be working while she awaits surgery.
The celebration of the couple's silver wedding anniversary in August is postponed for the same reason.
