Muher, surviving crises for monarchies are becoming a normal state of affairs these days. Their PR is always the same, admit nothing, say nothing and pretend the institution works fine. It works.
Drastic measures are taken only on the advice of senior royal public servants, public prosecutors and court lawyers when the institution is in serious problems
IN the meantime, we often forget that there is a family involved in court/judiciary/police investigations, and that family will close ranks with their own..... even if they are the highest rank family on the land.
If they put their family above their country, then they can't be the leading family of that country. That's the whole idea of modern monarchies: Country before family. Otherwise they will sooner or later be booted out.
The well-used and often effective method of saying nothing and pretend everything is normal, doesn't work anymore. They've already tried that - to put it mildly!
I think any royal family can survive a bad apple, even two bad apples as well as bad decisions. But when the bad apples begin to outnumber the good ones,
combined with a lot of bad decisions, then there is a real problem!
We have a Crown Princess, who had an unfortunate behavior in her youth, fair enough. But she continued to associate people with an unfortunate reputation. Epstein and his friends too we must assume, some of whom had an equal bad reputation, not least in exploiting minors.
And she had the audacity to stand up as a champion of women's rights, giving speeches, visiting and showing sympathy for victims of domestic abuse, and other forms of abuse, taking part in meeting discussing how to address and put focus on that issue - while her own son was beating up girlfriend after girlfriend. And she very likely not only knowing that, but tried to shield him from the consequences of that.
Is she going to continue behaving like everything is normal and keep speaking up for women's rights?
We have Haakon, who could be king tomorrow. Who BTW happens to have a brother-in-law who is an ex-con, not just once but several times and who is still waltzing around being an open charlatan.
Known hardcore criminals have been riding a sedge wick through his private apartment, stealing from him, probably looking under his bed as well, because who locks their bedroom doors when they are away, especially if you live in a guarded house... And he did what?
He has a stepson who for years has been associating known criminals, who even now is still associating known criminals, and he did what? He has a stepson who is a cocaine addict and who has obvious anger issues and he did what? On the contrary there is very good reason to believe that Haakon has been involved in some sort of cover up for Marius, at least to some extent.
He has allowed known hardcore criminals to come freely to his stepson's home at Skaugum, for years. On a property directly controlled by him, as CP, making a mockery of not only the police but also the armed forces, whose uniform he is wearing.
Haakon could be king tomorrow and then he, he personally, will represent and formally head the very system, he has thumbed his nose at.
But the worst thing for me, is that he and Mette Marit, have shown no respect at all for the victims of the crimes perpetrated by Marius friends. Because they have done nothing. They have helped Marius alright. But for everybody else, the often mis-qouted: "Let 'em eat cake" is apt.
With drugs comes crime. With crime comes victims. Even without victims, with drugs comes human misery. Yet Marius was allowed to continue to associate with those who were directly responsible for that suffering - at Skaugum of all places!
So yes, the NRF has a major problem on their hands right now! A problem that cannot just be dealt with by being silent and keep going on as normal.
This is not about taking bribes from someone. Or having affairs left and right. Or having a string of illegitimate children. Or being in the habit of speeding. Or being too stupid to tie their own shoelaces. Or being dead drunk in public. Or having a major feud within the family. - All that can be dealt with.
You put the offending member on grass, or if it's the monarch, you let him abdicate or you let someone else take the spotlight and become the darlings (and sometimes the hope) of the public.
And usually when the problem is dealt with, that's it, they can move on and rebuild the reputation of the monarchy.
In Norway however ML and her shaman as well as Marius won't go away. They'll still be around. And with Haakon and Mette Marit likely to get seriously tainted from this, there is only Ingrid, and perhaps Magnus left untainted. That's an awful few people to base a monarchy on.
So yes, Haakon and Mette Marit in particular owe the Norwegians a very good explanation and they'd better come up with a very growling, unreserved and convincing apology. And maintain that stance for the rest of their lives. They should never ever even dream about uttering a single word that could be interpreted as this being unfair,