King Harald has an incredible position here in Norway (as you can see in all the articles I have posted here) and as several commentators say here in Norway, he is without doubt the most popular head of state (along with Elizabeth II) in his own country. And the monarchy has record suport rigth now despite the bad choices of the CP-couple.
I wrote 3 long posts about the personal popularity of Norway's 3 monarchs and their impact on the popularity of the Norwegian monarchy and scandals who have threatened it in the Republic/monarchy thread - read them here:
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/f16/norway-republic-or-monarchy-17117-6.html#post1981079
I also wrote a post where I went through all polls on the Norwegian monarchy - read here:
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/f16/norway-republic-or-monarchy-17117-6.html#post1973364
But as I've written in these two posts:
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/f16/norway-republic-or-monarchy-17117-6.html#post1962424
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/f16/norway-republic-or-monarchy-17117-6.html#post1973448
Norway is a country where the Law of Jante is still very present. And therefore, we will not see thousands of peolpe on the streets tomorrow. It did not happen during the round birthdays of King Olav either. There were a lot of people on the streets during the Silver Wedding Anniversary in 1993 and during the 60th Birthdays in 1997. There were also people at the palace square to see the royal family on the balcony and the fireworks displays late in the evening on February 24, 2007 for the King's 70th birthdays celebrations, but it would be an exaggeration to call it crowds. There were maybe 1000 people.
But we were surprised on January 17th last year for the Silver Jubilee. 40-50 thousand people showed up in the freezing weather. The other times we have seen crowds like that was for King Haakon's 80th birthday in 1952 and the weddings in 1968 and 2001.