Norway’s Ailing King Celebrates Constitution Day as Thousands of Flag-Waving Children Cheer

Norway’s Ailing King Celebrates Constitution Day as Thousands of Flag-Waving Children Cheer
Norway's King Harald V waves from the balcony at Skaugum, their official residence, on the occasion of Norway's Constitution Day, near Oslo, on May 17, 2023. Frederik Ringnes/NTB Scanpix via AP
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Norway’s King Harald V, who was released from a hospital earlier this week, appeared Wednesday on the royal castle’s balcony to salute the thousands of children marching by as the Scandinavian country celebrated its Constitution Day.

Cheering and shouting, waving blue-white-red Norwegian flags, kindergarten and school students marched in front of the royal palace where Harald, 86, and his wife, Queen Sonja, sat and waved back to the vast crowd, many of whom wore traditional costumes.