Template talk:Norwegian royal family

His/Her Highness
Both Prince Sverre and Princess Märtha are entitled to use HH when abroad. Please see: http://www.kongehuset.no/c28433/seksjonstekst_person/vis.html?tid=28780 and http://www.kongehuset.no/c27273/seksjonstekst_person/vis.html?tid=28744 Inge 13:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Non-royal members of the royal family
"The remaining members of the Royal Family are the Crown Prince and Crown Princess’s other children, His Highness Prince Sverre Magnus and Master Marius Borg Høiby; Her Highness Princess Märtha Louise, Mr Ari Mikael Behn, Miss Maud Angelica Behn, Miss Leah Isadora Behn, Her Highness Princess Ragnhild Mrs Lorentzen, Mr Erling Sven Lorentzen, Her Highness Princess Astrid Mrs Ferner and Mr Johan Martin Ferner." (kogenhuset.no)

"The members of the Norwegian Royal House are Their Majesties King Harald and Queen Sonja and Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Haakon, Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Princess Ingrid Alexandra." (kogenhuset.no)

According to the official site, this template does not list members of the so-called Royal House nor the members of the Royal Family. It lists people who would be members of the royal family by "British rules" (monarch, consort, monarch's sons, daughters, daughters-in-law and male-line grandchidlren, and other princes and princesses). Although they are not royalty and they normally should not be members of the royal family, they apparently are and Wikipedia can't decide who is member and who is not. So, should we add these people to the template? Surtsicna (talk) 18:50, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Prince Martha Louise's daughters are in line for the Norwegian throne. They should probably be on the template even though they don't have titles. Ariadne55 (talk) 07:04, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Their place in the order of succession is not what makes them members of the royal family (eg. the Princess Royal's children are in line for the British throne, but they are not members of the royal family). They are members of the royal family because the official site says they are. Surtsicna (talk) 09:40, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The official site says they are members so I believe they should be added to the template. - dwc lr (talk) 15:34, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Only the constitution of Norway determines whether someone is a member of the Norwegian royal house. The list on the website is very much unofficial and includes some people who are in the personal and extended family of royals, but not in any way royals, holders of any special constitutional status or members of the royal house themselves. The template should only include the actual royals, who hold either the title King, Queen, or (Crown) Prince or Princess, or those without titles who are in the line of succession (the Behn children). Norway is different from the UK, in that any royal person automatically holds the title of Prince or Princess of Norway. The Behn children is a special case, since inheritance rights to the throne for children of a princess didn't exist in the previous generation, meaning the Behn children are technically not royal, but could theoretically become so if they inherited the throne. In Norway, it is the constitution, not the king, who determines whether someone is a member of the royal house, and the only way of becoming so is by being a legitimate descendant of it or by marriage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Minnatre (talk • contribs) 14:55, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

RfC notification
A request for comments which may impact this template has been started at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biographies. You are welcome to comment there. Fram (talk) 14:31, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Killuminator's disruptive edits
User:Killuminator persists with disruptively adding a person who is not a royal to this template. Today, the royal family has clarified again (per ) that he is "not a public person" (in the words of the website of the royal family), not a royal in any way, shape or form, does not have any public role at all (unlike his half-siblings), is not part of the royal house, and they have even deleted the brief biography that was previously added to their website (despite him not being a member of the royal family) to further clarify that he is not a royal and not a public person, and that he certainly doesn't belong in this template. (Of course, it is self-evident that a biography on a website, which did not make any claims of him being royal, didn't confer any royal status on him, a status which is only conferred by the constitution). --Minnatre (talk) 20:34, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Here is the relevant extract from the website of the Norwegian royal family: The remaining members of the Royal Family are the Crown Prince and Crown Princess’s other children, His Highness Prince Sverre Magnus and Mr Marius Borg Høiby;. Royal =//= member of the royal family.--Killuminator (talk) 00:36, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
 * It doesn't matter whether his name is (or rather: was) mentioned in an imprecise way on a website as it doesn't confer any status on him. Royal status in Norway, that is, membership of the royal family, is conferred by the constitution and not by the king's website. Being related to a royal on the non-royal side of the family (as in: being in the private family of a royal) doesn't make a person royal. Furthermore, the royal family has now gone out of their way to explicitly clarify that he is 1) not royal, 2) not even a public person in any way whatsoever, 3) that he has never had, and will never have, any official status of any kind in Norway, and that he is and has always been only a private citizen. As part of that effort, they have deleted the biography that they now regret erroneously and misleadingly having added to their website (perhaps treating it as a sort of private family website rather than an official expression of who is a royal in Norway, which isn't determined by the website anyway). --Minnatre (talk) 23:19, 13 January 2017 (UTC)