I have many stories that I've heard/read in interviews with King Harald, Queen Sonja, Crown Prince Haakon, Princess Märtha Louise, Princess Astrid and former employees at the court who worked for him. I don't have time to write so much about this now, but I can give you 4 points.
1. Photo session at Skaugum:
wartenberg7, Do you speak Norwegian (since you have heard of this story) or have you read about it here on TRF? I think I've written about it here before. This was during a photo session at the end of the 80s with several journalists present (including royal expert Wibecke Lie) who later told in documentaries that they did not dared to report it. The King and Queen have talked about it several times.
2. According to Haakon, Märtha and former court employees, he was directly unkind to Sonja and yelled at her when she took things up with him.
Queen Sonja has herself told about his bad temper, and the fact she didn't got an office at the Palace until long after she had married. The reason? Because she was a woman.
3. Haakon and Märtha has repeatedly told that he was very strict and often yelled at them. He also became angry when Harald played with the children and accused both him and Sonja of bad parenting.
4. Former employees have told he yelled at them for the smallest things, and that he often yelled at the ministers in Statsråd (Council of State). Nor was he pleased when Gro Harlem Brundtland became prime minister in 1981. Why? Because she was a woman.