Harald of Norway was a beloved man, and nowhere was that clearer than at his state funeral. It wasn’t just the turnout of visiting royal houses that made that obvious; it was the visible grief on the faces of the people who loved him most. Most of the cameras were trained on Queen Sonja’s emotion and on Mette-Marit’s tears, but one quieter presence carried a different kind of historical weight. Princess Astrid , 94, said goodbye to her baby brother, the sibling she stood beside and supported until the very end.

With his death, Astrid becomes the sole survivor of a generation that carried the Norwegian monarchy through some of its hardest…

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