Trond Berntsen, 51, a police officer, was off duty and working as a security guard at the event on the island of Utoya when he became the second of Breivik’s victims.
Mette-Marit wiped tears from her eyes and struggled to contain her grief as she attended a memorial service at Oslo’s cathedral on Sunday.
Berntsen, the son of the Princess’s late step-father, is believed to have tried to apprehend Breivik as he arrived on the island.
After making sure his 10-year-old son, who was also at the camp, was safe, he approached the gunman after a co-worker raised suspicions.
Monica Bosei, 45, who was known as the “mother of Utoya” as she had worked at the camp, organised by the youth wing of the ruling Labour Party, for more than 20 years, took the same boat to the island as Breivik on Friday.
Because he was wearing a police uniform she approached him to talk about the bomb blast in Oslo but became suspicious by his evasive answers.
As soon as the boat docked she ran over to Mr Berntsen to alert him but Breivik realised that they had clocked him and shot them both immediately, Mrs Bosei, an accountant whose two daughters were also at the camp but survived, was his first victim.
A witness said: “The 32-year-old gunman didn’t hesitate for one second as he launched his murderous rampage.”
Harald Olsen, 46, a union representative and friend of Mr Berntsen whose own two sons had been due to attend the camp, said he would not have hesitated before approaching Breivik.
He said: “My friend often worked at the camp. He is the sort of guy who would not be afraid to approach anyone and ask them what they were doing.”
It was claimed that Breivik told police he had targeted Norway’s former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Bruntland who had hosted a seminar at the camp.
He lost all his money on the stock market in 1997 when he was 19, just four years before he started plotting last week’s atrocity.
A friend, who did not wish to be named but who had helped him join the Freemasons, said: “He had many friends but I remember he lost all of his money on the stock market in 1997. He lost shares worth about 2 million kroner (£227,000).
“He always took care of his mother and she was very dependent on him.”
Another friend disclosed that the right wing extremist had travelled to the US for plastic surgery on his face.
He said: “He had surgery on his forehead, nose and chin and said he was very satisfied with the results.
“I never saw him with a woman but he used to say that he would start dating again once he had fixed his face. He always wanted to be rich.”
Other friends expressed shock at Breivik’s actions, describing him as a “very polite man who was always well dressed”.
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