Norway's Crown Prince Haakon has denied reports that he is about to become engaged to a woman who has a child.
"There seems to have been conclusions that were jumped to," the crown prince told Norway's national news agency NTB.
The popular 27-year-old prince revealed in May that he had a steady girlfriend, Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby, 27, who has a 3-year-old son. Last month, the palace announced that the two planned to move in together.
The fact that Hoiby was an unwed mother barely raised an eyebrow in Norway, where about half the children are born to single mothers or unmarried couples.
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Legal experts say Hoiby's son could never be king, even if the couple married and Haakon adopted him.