On the big day, August 25, 2001, Crown Prince Haakon arrived early and waited outside Oslo cathedral for his bride. In the first of what was to be many breaks with tradition, the groom was not waiting nervously at the front of the cathedral with his best man,
Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, but outside the door of the church.
His bride had chosen to dispense with going up the aisle on her father’s arm, and instead had decided that she and her future husband would make the journey to the altar together.
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