Hans Geelmuyden is a columnist for Nettavisen, and on 10 September he published the opinion piece ‘Harald Kosepratet – Now Haakon Must Act’. In it, he points out that under Harald V, who reigned from 1991 to 2026, Norway underwent a fundamental transformation, from being a moderately wealthy country characterised by unity, governance, direction and history, to a fabulously wealthy oil nation where everything is measured in money. In this way, oil wealth has robbed us of important cultural values.
What Geelmuyden, incredibly, fails to mention is that during the same reign, Norway went from being a national project to becoming a globalist social experiment that has diluted everything we have and everything we are. And both King Harald V and Crown Prince Haakon went along with this uncritically. It therefore falls to us, the independent commentators, to delve a little deeper into the matter.
Who is Haakon VIII, and what does he want?
Everyone is eagerly awaiting a glimpse of what sort of king Haakon VIII will actually become: a globalist king? A king of the elite? A shadow king? A king of the people? No one knows. As men grow older, they tend to gain more life experience, greater insight, more independence, more wisdom and a greater ability to distinguish between right and wrong, function and dysfunction, direction and confusion. But surely the King isn’t political?
Well, the evidence shows that, as Crown Prince, Haakon was deeply involved in political globalist projects, and was also linked to the cult surrounding the Bond villain Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum. His wife, too, has demonstrably been involved in this, as well as mingling with the globalist elite surrounding Epstein. That should make most people shudder. As Crown Prince, our new king:
• Attended the highly political World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on several occasions.
• Accepted appointment as a Young Global Leader (YGL), an organisation affiliated with the forum.
• Served on the board of the organisation’s network.
• Launched the Global Dignity initiative through the World Economic Forum’s network.
• Shown great interest in global cooperation through the UN.
• Obtained a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, in the USA.
• Obtained a master’s degree in development studies, specialising in international trade and Africa.
What has Haakon done for Norway as a sovereign nation?
As can be seen from the list above, there is little to suggest that our new king has spent his time preparing to lead and protect a tiny, independent nation in a sea of global interests, foreign cultures and profiteers seeking spoils and influence over a fabulously wealthy oil-producing country. Our political elite is giving away money, territory and natural resources to asylum-seeking pirates like a raving mad captain on a rudderless ship, and what does the King think of that? It is very easy to adopt the motto ‘Everything for Norway’, but it becomes very challenging to prove it, given the aforementioned past and background. But perhaps I am misunderstanding him and his roles? Perhaps I haven’t dug deep enough?
All citizens understand that, as the future king, a Crown Prince is bound to be involved in diplomacy and international affairs, and to serve as a figurehead for HMS ‘Norway’ on the international stage. There is nothing wrong with that. It is a destiny and a job that most people have very little basis for understanding, and which Haakon actually takes on voluntarily. He could have left it at that. Had he said ‘no, thank you’ before he had a daughter, the role would have fallen to Märtha and Durek, and that would have been a gift to the left-wing republicans.
Born to be king, or simply bound to it?
The mess of his sister’s reckless lifestyle and deranged New Age attitudes is yet another warning shot that Haakon himself will never publicly admit to. But even if one searches high and low, it is difficult to find statements or actions where Haakon, as Crown Prince, has signalled that he has reservations about globalism, ‘woke’ mania, Islamic subculture, the abuse of the welfare state, and the EU’s takeover of Norway through its governors Støre and Solberg.
The Crown Prince could have done so. No one would have sacked him for that reason. It is, in fact, difficult to find any situations or statements in which Haakon has insisted that Norway must preserve its sovereign interests, its culture, its people, its borders, its language, its currency, its flag and its identity, as kings must and should. That is what the job is all about. It is, in fact, the whole point of having a king. The king is welcome to cooperate with other countries, peoples and foreign powers, but not to work for them. Hello ..?
Everything Haakon has said and done so far has, in fact, been about ‘cooperation’ and ‘global challenges’, with a clear encroachment into the political arena. But where and when has he pointed out that cooperation and trade have never required supranationalism? Where has he signalled that there is a difference between cultures and social systems? That bad culture and macho superstition from desert regions create dysfunctional societies? That Sharia law is undemocratic and undesirable in Norway? Or that importing one and a half million foreigners into Norway in just 30 years not only creates problems, tensions, division and costs, but also enormous infrastructureproblems and makes Norway’s future completely impossible to predict? Norway has no direction, no goals and no anchor, and Norwegians long for just that.
Norway needs a national leader now
Geelmuyden is absolutely right that Haakon must take action instead of engaging in idle chatter. He now sits as head of state of a country which an alarmingly large number of citizens perceive to be in cultural decline, economically deteriorating and handed over to the EU. Where private capital interests, migrants from all over the world and anyone who wants a slice of everything we have and everything we are can, it seems, simply help themselves. Where a closed aristocracy in Oslo appears to be working for foreign powers and fostering corruption and the sale of Norway to the highest bidder – because of the climate. And because of Africa. Always Africa, as if that were our problem.
Haakon VIII is to sit in the Council of State with a government of globalist yes-men obsessed with the EU, where socialist ‘woke’ culture has run amok, where incompetence extends to a Minister of Transport without a driving licence, and where everyone is preoccupied with saving the climate for the whole world. One is free to dismiss this as nonsense, conspiracy theories and outright lies, but it doesn’t help: this is what it looks like. This is the truth for a great many of King Haakon’s compatriots. We no longer care what the elite say – we only care about what the elite actually do, and the results of that: the Labour Party and the Conservative Party are robbing people of their sleep. Who will give the population their sleep back?
An apolitical king with massive influence
Haakon VIII is taking over Norway at a time when the rest of Europe is in the process of breaking with ‘woke’ ideology, socialism, globalism, Islam and dysfunctional climate hysteria. Voters are beginning to have had enough. Europe is in the process of waking up from the Disneyland dream and swinging back towards reason, logic, economics, realpolitik and national function in a dangerous world – where countries must be governed according to how reality is, and not according to how reality should be.
This implies opposition to everything Crown Prince Haakon has so far championed, and how will he, as king, respond to that? For in many ways, Haakon has been reborn. Not as a ‘young global leader’, but as a national leader, a national symbol and a national icon. Does he understand the difference?
In his first televised address, Haakon VIII asked for ‘God’s help and the people’s support’, and he concluded with ‘May God preserve our country’. That alone has caused a stir, speculation and consternation amongst globalists and socialists. What about Allah? What about diversity and inclusion? Was it a slip of the tongue, empty phrases from the past, or a deliberate signal? Time will tell, but all eyes are now on Norway’s most influential figures — those with the informal power to change Norway’s course.
Patriots and the majority of Norwegians hope for action rather than idle chatter. A firm stance rather than free-flowing discourse. Leadership rather than mere company. And everyone must remember that without a monarchy, after 1,000 years, the Republic of Norway will end up with a politically incompetent president from the new EU aristocracy as head of state. That will never be an improvement – whatever happens.
The King is dead. Long live the King!
