This makes me cringe. Did they elaborate on their past life together in Egypt? I am sure they were royalty back then, Ramses & Nefertari, Isis & Osiris, anyone?
They did actually.
It was mentioned in at least one interview in the early stages of their relationship.
Durek was a pharaoh in ancient Egypt - didn't specify which one though. And there were after all quite a few!
And ML was - naturally - his queen. And considering the preoccupation of the pharaohs regarding their divine bloodline, very likely also his sister or half-sister...
Wonder if they thought about that?
These two will try every trick in the book to try and circumnavigate the restrictions laid out in regards to using ML's royal background and at some point the NRF will have to/be forced to take decisive actions and basically strip ML of her title. Alternatively cut her off. I.e. "banishing her from the court."
There may come a point, and that may come suddenly, where the political and/or public pressure or even outrage reach such a level that it spills over to the NRF. That is they become directly tainted by association. And that is IMO likely to happen early on in Haakon's reign.
For two reasons:
1) ML her her shaman will try and push the envelope as far as at all possible early on in Haakon's reign.
2) King Harald has an immense personal credit, so I think the Norwegians will tolerate much more simply out of personal respect for King Harald.
But Haakon as a new king will not have had time to build up a similar public credit and he may not start out by having anything resembling the personal respect and even veneration that King Harald has. So the public pressure/expectation of Haakon to do something about ML at least, will be high.
I always wondered what became of his kidney problems. He searched and pleaded for somebody to donor a kidney and said that he would only marry if he had a new kidney and was feeling healthy anough. And then... we never heard of this again.
There are only two conclusions to me: He either made it up or he got a new kidney and didn't tell. Having watched the pair in the past how open they are on social media everywhere, I can not imagine that they wouldn't have published the good news of having found a donor, having had a successful operation and him being happy and healthy again.
Or perhaps he dreamed up a new kidney?
After all, he has said on several occasions that people are only ill if they subconsciously want to. So perhaps he woke up one morning deciding that he doesn't need a new kidney because he's not ill anymore and that did the trick.
Or perhaps his ancestral spirits, no doubt aided by ML's undoubted and highly respected abilities to converse with angels, dropped by and stuck a brand new kidney into Durek. Why, that's the least they can do for him, eh? He is after all a Star-Child.
Because that a man like Durek, who is honesty and integrity personified, should come up with a scheme to angle for sympathy by feigning a serious illness is of course completely unthinkable. It would never happen, perish the thought. After all, and as we all know, Durek has never made something up.