Oslo mayor cancels own wedding after death of Norway's king - BBC News

Anne Lindboe, the mayor of Norway's capital, had planned to marry her fiance on Friday.

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The Mayor of Oslo, Anne Lindboe, has been engaged for five years

Oslo's Mayor Anne Lindboe has called off her wedding ceremony because of the death of King Harald V of Norway.

The wedding with her fiancé Pål Sandvid was planned to take place on Friday but was postponed after the king died earlier the same day, her political adviser confirmed to the BBC.

"It's hard to imagine an Oslo and a Norway without you. You didn't need a crown to be king," Lindboe wrote in a tribute to the late monarch on Instagram.

Harald reigned for 35 years and died at the national hospital in Norway's capital, where he was being treated for a rare blood condition. His son, King Haakon VIII, ascended the throne on Friday.