As King Harald V lies in state in Oslo, with the crown and sword of state resting on his coffin, I take a look at where Norway's crown jewels actually come from. In this video I look at what happened to the lost medieval regalia – including the 1537 flight of Archbishop Olav Engelbrektsson, the decade-long diplomatic dispute over his exiled treasure in the Netherlands, and the still-open question of whether the crowns themselves survived it. I then turn to how a completely new set of regalia was commissioned in 1818 for the coronation of Carl Johan (Bernadotte), how it was used across the century of union with Sweden, and why Norway abandoned coronations altogether in 1908 and how the regalia is used today.
• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:12 The Medieval Regalia
• 6:26 The Loss of the Medieval Regalia
• 11:58 New Regalia Made in 1818
• 12:52 The King’s Regalia
• 16:28 The Queen's Regalia
• 18:15 The Crown Prince's Coronet
• 19:09 The Modern Coronations
• 20:44 The End of Coronations
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