Aug 16, 2007, 12:30 GMT
Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been reprimanded by cancer charities after she was caught smoking at a wedding.
Princess Mette-Marit had been a smoker for many years but claimed she quit in 2003 while pregnant with her first child with Crown Prince Haakon, Princess Ingrid Alexandra.
But Norway's Se og Hør magazine has published pictures of the princess smoking at a wedding this summer.
The photographs have prompted the Norwegian cancer society, Kreftforeningen, to express their disappointment in Mette-Marit.
The society's secretary general Anne Lise Ryel said: "The crown princess is one of the country's most photographed and visible women. It's negative and sad that she's seen as a smoker."
Kreftforeningen have offered the princess courses on how to stop smoking.
Mette-Marit's father-in-law King Harald was also a heavy smoker - as was his late father King Olav - but reportedly quit when he fell ill with bladder cancer two years ago.
Mette-Marit is mother to 10-year-old Marius, whose father is a convicted criminal and who she gave birth to out of wedlock.
The princess' three-year-old daughter Alexandra also has a 20-month-old brother, Prince Sverre Magnus.
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