Posted on 03/12/2005 6:17:59 PM PST by franksolich
Norway royal's dad weds ex-stripper
Crown Princess Mette-Marit's freewheeling father married an ex-stripper half his age at the Norwegian embassy in the Netherlands on Friday, the TV-2 television network reported.
Svein O Hoiby, the princess's 68-year-old commoner father, often figures in Norwegian news media for antics that have caused him to be estranged from his daughter.
The bridegroom, who has no role in Norway's royal family, met his bride, 34-year-old Norwegian Renathe Barsgaard, when she stripped on stage at a show in October in southern Norway he participated in.
"It is strange that an old man like me could fall in love with a woman who is the same age as my youngest daughter," Hoiby told the gossip magazine Se og Hoer, which first reported the wedding plans. "But it's true love."
Mette-Marit is 31, or three years younger than her new stepmother, who has given up stripping and is now studying to be a nurse's aide.
The private TV-2 network said the Norwegian ambassador to the Netherlands, Kaare Bryn, confirmed that Hoiby and Barsgaard were married in a ceremony on Friday at the embassy in The Hague but gave no other details.
Single mother Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby caused a stir herself when she became engaged in 2000 to Crown Prince Haakon, designated as Norway's next king.
Norwegians were less shocked by their future queen being an unwed mother as they were of her tearful admission that she had once moved in circles that used drugs.
After their August 2001 wedding, then the January 2004 birth of the couple's first child, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, their popularity has soared. The Norwegian media said there has been little or no contact between Mette-Marit and her father for several years.
The royal palace in Oslo declined comment, as always when asked about Hoiby's sometimes unorthodox activities.
Such as that decades-old murder case in Connecticut, a nephew of Ethel Skakel Kennedy boasting that because he is a "Kennedy," law-enforcement would never bother him.
Such people are like the moon, whose radiance is borrowed from the sun.
As is always case in these stories, the real question is: "Is she hot?" I haven't been able to find any pictures.
I give him a 9 outta 10 on the "attaboy" scale!!!
Somedays I can't tell the difference between moral outrage and jealousy...
This thread is going nowhere without those pics!
You know, I have been reading the stories of the individual reporters with the Aftenposten, and am slowing getting the impression Morten Andersen is an all-right guy; I am not a sociable person, and really dislike drinking, but I have the feeling that if I ever showed up in Oslo, I would want to join Morten Andersen in a game of poker in a smoke-filled room, sipping on Haig & Haig.
Unfortunately, the Australian newspaper didn't print any photographs to accompany the article--I'm sure that if the Aftenposten had covered the story, there would have been pictures.
No.
How about gnarly?
Here's the dude.
Actually, they're both gnarly. A match made in heaven
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"It is strange that an old man like me could fall in love with a woman who is the same age as my youngest daughter," Hoiby told the gossip magazine Se og Hoer, ..."
You said it; not me but I will add that it's not "love" but lust and wishing you were young again.
I agree; it is pathetic.
And she herself--if that is an accurate photograph of her--is a walking hotbed for all sorts of future dermotological problems, including skin cancer. Not a pretty future.
I feel for people being burdened by in-laws like this.
Scandinavian royalty with its youthful princes seeking romance, is the reason we get films such as "The Prince and Me".
It's mighty cold in Norway.
That looks a lot like the usual descriptions of Alan Colmes.
No.
It looks she's 34 going on 73.
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Chuck Yeager is having the same problem with his children regarding his younger wife.
Cool! Lots of old guys dream of doing this but don't because of all the logical reasons. This guy went and did it! 8-D
Gee, I wonder what is real about her. Those silicon implants are probably as hard as rocks. One thing is for sure, she sure isn't in LOVE with that old far*.
What a nice girl to take home to mama. I pray mama is dead already.
The boobs are obviously fake. I was just wondering if the cross was too.
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