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Royal expert, author and historian Trond Norén Isaksen believes it is time for the king to strip Märtha Louise of her princess title. -
The use of the princess title on gin labels produced for the wedding of Princess Martha Louise and Durek Verret was the seventh breach in two years of an agreement between the royal family and Martha Louise not to use the princess title for commercial purposes. Royal House expert Trond Norén Isaksen says. -
Princess Märtha Louise and Durek Verrett's controversies are damaging the royal family's credibility, says royal expert Trond Norén Isaksen. She believes that King Harald should strip her of her princess title.
Historian and royal family expert Trond Noren Isaksen believes it's time for Martha Louise to be stripped of her princess title. He believes he is undermining the credibility of the royal family.
Short version
- Historian Trond Norén Isaksen proposes to strip Märtha Louise of the princess title.
- He believes he is undermining the royal family's credibility and violating agreements to use the title commercially.
- Isaksen points to a decline in monarchical support and believes this is due to the controversies surrounding Märtha Louise and Durek Verrett.
- A constitutional amendment in 1990 made it possible to change royal titles.
In a newspaper Pinposton He pointed out that the princess had repeatedly broken an agreement with the royal family not to use the title of princess and her connection to the royal family in business contexts.
“When the agreement was not honored, it was time to attack Martha Louise's princess title before King Harald's career was further damaged,” Isaksen writes.
He points out that using the princess's title to promote the much-talked-about gin is the seventh breach of an agreement the monarch made with Princess Martha Louise and Durek Verret two years ago.
Isaacsen believes that all the controversy surrounding Martha Louise and Durek Verret is causing a decline in support for the royal family, and points out that all respondents to a 2022 NRK poll said this was the main reason. There was great suspicion of the monarchy.
Isaksen points out that support for the monarchy was 81 percent in 2017, 78 percent in 2022, and has dropped to 73 percent this year.
“For good reasons, most Norwegians are happy with King Harald, and many are angry that the daughter and future son-in-law are publicly humiliating the king by showing his disrespect for his authority,” Isaksen writes.
After a constitutional amendment in 1990, it was entirely the king's responsibility to issue “conditions on titles to those entitled to inherit the crown”. It also gives him the ability to lose titles.
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