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2026年8月28日 / 美国东部时间凌晨3:48 / 美联社
挪威斯塔万格 —— 挪威国王哈拉尔五世于周五去世，享年89岁。他在童年时期因纳粹占领祖国而流亡美国，曾拒绝多位欧洲贵族女子，最终迎娶了自己的校园恋人。
挪威王室宣布，他于当地时间凌晨6点35分在奥斯陆国立医院去世。
哈拉尔是欧洲现存最年长的君主。这位深受民众爱戴的国王推动了王室现代化，但拒绝效仿近年来多位退位的年迈君主。他的儿子自动继承王位，成为哈康八世国王。
和欧洲其他王室一样，挪威君主主要承担象征性角色，享有名人地位，而这个拥有550万人口的民主国家的实权掌握在民选议会手中。哈拉尔于1991年1月他的英国籍父亲奥拉夫五世去世后加冕，统治期间正值挪威因油气产业推动的经济繁荣期。
2026年5月28日拍摄的照片显示挪威国王哈拉尔五世。科尔内留斯·波佩 / 挪威通讯社 / 法新社盖蒂图片社
“整个国家都陷入哀悼，挪威人民对哈拉尔五世毕生为挪威服务的漫长一生深感感激，”首相约纳斯·加尔·斯特勒在一份声明中说道。“作为君主的三十余年来，哈拉尔五世始终对挪威人民抱有坚定不移的信念。他帮助我们看到了自身以及彼此身上的闪光点。”
哈拉尔1937年出生于奥斯陆附近的阿斯克尔，是自1370年奥拉夫四世以来首位在挪威本土出生的挪威王子。在接下来的几个世纪里，挪威一直没有本国国王，直到1905年瑞典与挪威解除联盟后，哈拉尔的祖父哈康七世被选举为国王。
二战爆发纳粹占领挪威时，哈拉尔年仅3岁。为避免被俘虏，母亲带着他和姐姐拉格希尔德、阿斯特里德先逃往瑞典，随后乘船前往美国，而哈拉尔的父亲和祖父则与挪威政府一同在英国流亡。
哈康拒绝配合德国的要求，这为他赢得了国民的尊敬。
2026年8月28日，挪威王室宣布国王哈拉尔五世去世后，民众聚集在奥斯陆王宫广场的挪威国旗和鲜花前悼念。他享年89岁。奥德·安德森 / 法新社盖蒂图片社
流亡美国期间，挪威王室常常受邀做客白宫。哈拉尔6岁时完成了自己的首项官方职责：在加拿大的一处挪威空军基地为新战机举行命名仪式。
1945年6月，二战结束后不久，王室一家在挪威团聚。哈拉尔先后就读于公立学校、挪威军事学院和牛津大学。
和他的父亲——1928年奥运会帆船赛冠军——一样，哈拉尔热爱海洋和帆船。他曾多次代表挪威参加奥运会，并在1987年驾驶自己的游艇夺得世界锦标赛金牌。
年轻时，有人敦促哈拉尔从欧洲王室公主中挑选妻子。九年来，他始终拒绝多位贵族女子，直到最终征得父亲的同意，迎娶了自己的校园恋人索尼娅·哈拉尔森——一位成功商人的女儿。
奥拉夫国王曾担心这桩婚姻会削弱挪威尚且年轻的君主制。但挪威民众为1968年8月29日的婚礼举国欢庆，后来也将索尼娅视为他们的王后。二人育有两个孩子：哈康和他的姐姐玛莎·路易丝。
1990年，挪威宪法进行修订，规定无论性别，长子（女）拥有王位继承权优先权。但该修订不具有追溯力，这意味着哈康仍然比他的姐姐拥有优先继承权。
1991年1月21日哈拉尔即位时，采用了和父亲、祖父相同的座右铭：“一切为了挪威”。他在接下来的几年里致力于推动王室现代化。
“我的经验是，君主制根基稳固，”他曾说道。“这很大程度上要归功于我的父亲和祖父把大部分事情都处理好了。这给我带来了压力，但我将其视为挑战。”
2011年，极右翼极端分子安德斯·贝林·布雷维克制造炸弹和枪击袭击，造成77人死亡。哈拉尔在随后的纪念仪式上发表动情演讲，赢得了全国的赞誉。
“我始终坚信，对自由的信念比恐惧更强大。我始终坚信开放的挪威民主和社会。我始终坚信我们能够在自己的国家自由、安全地生活，”国王说道。
2016年，哈拉尔发表了一场出人意料且充满激情的演讲，支持 LGBTQ+ 平等、难民和宗教宽容，他说：“挪威人中有爱上女孩的女孩，爱上男孩的男孩，也有相爱的男孩和女孩。”他补充道，许多挪威移民来自阿富汗、巴基斯坦、波兰等国家，他们“信仰上帝、真主、宇宙，或者什么都不信”。
这场赞扬这个斯堪的纳维亚国家多样性的公开演讲在社交媒体上被数百万次观看。
在他的统治期间，挪威王室几乎没有遭遇瑞典和英国王室那样的丑闻，但哈拉尔的女儿玛莎·路易丝因声称自己能与天使沟通，并与一位自称萨满的美国男子订婚而引发争议，随后她放弃了王室职责。
2026年初，挪威王室也遭遇了负面关注：哈拉尔的儿媳王储妃梅特-玛丽特因与已故性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的联系再次受到审查。这引发了人们对其判断力的质疑，尽管她并未被指控有任何不当行为。梅特-玛丽特为她给王室带来的处境道歉，同时也为所有“失望过”的人道歉。
几乎与此同时，她的长子马吕斯·博格·霍伊比在一场备受关注的审判中被判定犯有强奸罪，被判处四年监禁。霍伊比是梅特-玛丽特与哈康结婚前一段感情所生的儿子，没有王室头衔和官方职责。
2024年1月，在他的远房表亲丹麦女王玛格丽特二世退位后，哈拉尔表示他将坚守即位时许下的誓言：“终身为王”。
但在此之后，他在海外出访期间两次住院：2024年在马来西亚度假时安装了心脏起搏器，2026年2月在西班牙特内里费岛度假时因皮肤感染接受治疗。
Norway’s King Harald V, Europe’s oldest monarch, dies at 89
2026-08-28T03:48:00-0400 / CBS News
August 28, 2026 / 3:48 AM EDT / AP
Stavanger, Norway — King Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen to marry his school sweetheart, died Friday. He was 89.
The palace said he died at the National Hospital in Oslo at 6:35 a.m.
Harald was Europe’s oldest monarch. The popular king modernized the royal house but refused to follow in the footsteps of other aging monarchs who have abdicated in recent times. His son automatically became King Haakon VIII.
Like other royal houses in Europe, the Norwegian monarchs serve a largely symbolic role, enjoying celebrity status while real power in the democracy of 5.5 million rests with an elected parliament. Harald was crowned after his British-born father, King Olav V, died in January 1991, and reigned during an oil-and-gas-driven economic boom in his country.
Picture taken on May 28, 2026, shows King Harald V of Norway. Cornelius Poppe / NTB / AFP via Getty Images
“A whole nation is in mourning and the people of Norway are left with a deep sense of gratitude for a long life in the service of Norway,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said in a statement. “For more than three decades as monarch, Harald V demonstrated an unwavering faith in the Norwegian people. He helped us to see the best in ourselves — and in one another.”
Harald was born in 1937 in Asker, near Oslo, becoming the first Norwegian prince to be born in the country since King Olav IV in 1370. In the following centuries, Norway didn’t have a king of its own until Harald’s grandfather, Haakon VII, was elected king following the 1905 dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway.
Harald was 3 years old when the Nazis occupied Norway at the start of World War II. To avoid capture, his mother fled with him and his sisters, Ragnhild and Astrid, first to Sweden and then by boat to the U.S., while Harald’s father and grandfather went into exile in Britain with Norway’s government.
Haakon’s refusal to go along with German demands garnered respect among his people.
Mourners gather in front of flags of Norway and flowers to pay tribute to King Harald V of Norway at the Royal Palace square in Oslo on August 28, 2026, after the royal palace announced that he had died. He was 89. Odd ANDERSEN / AFP via Getty Images
During their time in the U.S., the Norwegian royals were often guests at the White House. Harald was 6 when he carried out his first official duty, christening new warplanes at a Norwegian air base in Canada.
The family was reunited in Norway in June 1945, shortly after the end of the war. Harald attended public schools, the Norwegian military college and Oxford University.
Like his father — an Olympic champion sailor in 1928 — Harald loved the sea and sailboats. He represented Norway at several Olympics, and in 1987 he skippered his yacht to gold in the World Championships.
As a young man, Harald was urged to find a bride among the princesses of Europe. For nine years he shunned a series of noblewomen, holding out until he finally won his father’s permission to marry his school sweetheart, Sonja Haraldsen, the daughter of a successful businessman.
King Olav had feared the marriage would weaken Norway’s still-young monarchy. Instead, Norwegians greeted the Aug. 29, 1968, wedding with jubilation, and later embraced Sonja as their queen. The couple had two children, Haakon and his older sister, Märtha Louise.
The Norwegian Constitution was altered in 1990 to allow the firstborn, regardless of gender, to take precedence in the line of succession. However, it was not applied retroactively, meaning that Haakon continued to take precedence over his sister.
When Harald assumed the throne on Jan. 21, 1991, he adopted the same motto his father and grandfather had used: “All for Norway.” He spent the next years trying to modernize the monarchy.
“It has been my experience that the monarchy stands strong,” he once said. “This is not least because my father and grandfather did most things right. That puts me under pressure, but I take it as a challenge.”
Harald won the praise of the country with an emotional speech at a memorial service after a right-wing extremist, Anders Behring Breivik, killed 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in Norway in 2011.
“I remain convinced that the belief in freedom is stronger than fear. I remain convinced in the belief of an open Norwegian democracy and society. I remain convinced in the belief in our ability to live freely and safely in our own country,” the king said.
In 2016, Harald gave an unexpected and impassioned speech in support of LGBTQ+ equality, refugees and religious tolerance, saying “Norwegians are girls who love girls, boys who love boys, and girls and boys who love each other.” He added that many Norwegians have emigrated from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Poland and other countries and that they “believe in God, Allah, the universe and nothing.”
The public speech extolled the diversity of the Scandinavian nation and was viewed on social media by millions.
During his reign, the royal family suffered relatively few of the scandals that have plagued their peers in the Swedish and British royal families, though Harald’s daughter Märtha Louise gave up royal duties after raising eyebrows by saying she could communicate with angels and becoming engaged to an American man who identifies as a shaman.
The Norwegian royal family did face unflattering attention in early 2026 as Harald’s daughter-in-law, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, faced renewed scrutiny over her connections with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. That raised questions over her judgment, though she is not accused of any wrongdoing. Mette-Marit apologized for the situation she put the royal family in, part of a broader apology for all those she had “disappointed.”
At around the same time, her eldest son, Marius Borg Høiby, was convicted of rape in a high-profile trial and sentenced to four years in prison. Høiby, Mette-Marit’s son from a previous relationship before she met Haakon, has no royal titles or official duties.
In January 2024, after the abdication of Denmark’s Queen Margrethe — his second cousin — Harald said that he stood by the oath he made when ascending the throne: “It lasts for life.”
However, he was hospitalized twice on foreign trips after that, including during a 2024 vacation in Malaysia when he was fitted with a pacemaker and while dealing with a skin infection during a February 2026 holiday on the Spanish island of Tenerife.