The annual report of The Royal Court 2025

Their Majesties The King and Queen visited both Bjørnøya and Spitsbergen in June 2025 against a backdrop of increasing global focus on the Arctic and the centenary of the Svalbard Act. in August, exactly 100 years after the Norwegian flag was first raised over Svalbard, it was hoisted once again during a ceremony at which the Crown Prince repeated the message from 1925: “Raise the flag!”