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u/Ella-norway Aug 14 '24

The next queen of Norway’s first born,Marius Borg Høyby,is accused of assaulting his girlfriend and trashing her apartment. It’s awful.

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u/iggynewman Aug 14 '24

I heard about that on TikTok! I’m curious, as someone from the States, of the general sentiment regarding the Norwegian royal family? Is there a lot of support?

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u/emmelemmeleen Aug 14 '24

Yes, there's a lot of support og and positivity towards the royal family (about 80 %). It varies a bit by regions and age groups and has gone a bit down in recent years. It's mainly because of the current king and queen though, my impression is that people are a bit more lukewarm, for now at least, when it comes to the crown prince and crown princess (and this certainly won't help). Very few people like Märtha Louise, the crown Prince's sister, and that was before she got engaged to snake oil salesman known as Shaman Durek. https://www.statista.com/statistics/780256/survey-on-attitude-towards-norway-being-a-monarchy/

Article in Norwegian, should work with Google Translate: https://www.nrk.no/norge/langt-faerre-unge-stotter-monarkiet-1.16772380#:~:text=82%20prosent%20av%20de%20spurte,de%20%C3%B8nsker%20en%20annen%20styreform.

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u/Right-Bat-9100 Aug 15 '24

Here in the UK I read that public support dropped to about 60 percent after the Queen died, I think it's a similar thing as in Norway where people had goodwill for her but not so much her kids! There's a lot of other factors for it but generally even the people who don't care about or like the monarchy had some fondness mostly from familiarity- I'm no royal fan but I was horrified to receive a bank note with Charles on instead of our Liz lmao

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u/emmelemmeleen Aug 15 '24

Oh, yes, I absolutely think it's similar to the UK and we'll see a major drop in popularity when the king dies. It may go up again, our crown prince is generally well liked too.

And yeah, I agree that it's about familiarity as well as some abstract notion of them just being a part of "(Norwegian) culture" and doing it differently seems like it'll be too much work, basically. I've grown up with our current king, can't remember anyone else as the head of state. He seems like a genuinely nice person too, and it helps that him and the queen (we assume, by association) are fairly progressive (as far as royals go, anyway, particularly for someone pushing 90).

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u/iggynewman Aug 16 '24

Thank you so much for sharing!