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Moving life
Who wears a crown, lives in palaces, has beautiful robes and jewels, has not automatically leased the luck. Even in the finest of environments there are worries, hardships or strokes of fate that can put a strain on your life.
Queen Sonja (75) from Norway has experienced the latter first-hand and has now worked her own personal suffering through a book .
Nine years had the bourgeois merchant's daughter Sonja Haraldsen known to lead an undercover relationship with Harald of Norway (75) until 1968, she was finally allowed to marry the then heir to the throne.
But her luck quickly turned to mourning. Two years after the wedding, she suffered a miscarriage.
A circumstance that she did not get over for a long time, especially since at about the same time her older sister Gry († 1970) took his own life. The question of whether she could not have done for Gry (at that time) to prevent the tragedy torments Queen Sonja to this day.
But that's not all: In 1971, a year after the birth of Princess Märtha Louise (40), Sonja suffered a second miscarriage, which triggered a deep spiritual depression in her again.
Improvement only came after 1973 saw the long-awaited heir to the throne Haakon (39) the light of day.
Nevertheless, the experience does not let the queen go. In the book "Dronningen" ('Queen') - it is so far only available in Norwegian - she describes with the help of co-author Ingar Sletten Kolloen her ordeal and explains why, even if she radiates outward, not always to Laughing is.
