Overview
- The Royal Court announced Friday, September 11, 2026, that Princess Astrid died peacefully at the age of 94.
- King Haakon ordered flags at half-mast and called Astrid “a important support” for the family in an official palace statement.
- In the months before her death Astrid had repeated health problems, including a May hospital stay for heart failure and a temporary pacemaker, and she attended King Harald’s state funeral where she placed a personal wreath.
- Norwegian institutions and leaders, including the Storting and the Supreme Court, and foreign royals led by Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf have publicly expressed condolences and praised her work for vulnerable people.
- Astrid’s life combined decades of royal representation with a 1961 marriage to Johan Martin Ferner that cost her rank yet did not end her public role, and her death so soon after Harald’s concentrates national mourning and keeps ceremonial focus on King Haakon.