I think it's premature talking about the end of the Norwegian monarchy because of this scandal. Frankly, all European monarchies have had some pretty serious scandals in the last 20 years, and they've all survived.
Marius is being charged with some pretty serious issues, and, hopefully, Norway's justice system can deal with them without too much interfering from the Royal House and other institutions.
Lets give time to the Police, and the judiciary to deal with a pretty difficult subject, considering the institutional implications. Until the charges are brought to Court, and a sentence is passed, all our countries function on the premise of "being innocent until proven guilty".
Marius may very well be guilty of everything he's been charged with but, until the matter comes to Court, and he's sentenced, the Royal House may choose not to act against him.
The survival of a royal house is not so much about what crisis they are facing, unless it happens to be some kind of violent revolution aimed at killing them off, it's how that royal houses
handles a major crisis that is the deciding factor.
If the royal house does it well, they can actually come out stronger, but if handled badly even a small thing can serious damage even an otherwise successful royal house.
In the case with the NRF they are facing a string of serious cases they need to deal with.
Marius, which is getting worse almost for each day! And Marius won't just go away. He can still cause problems 30-4o years from now.
And they have ML and her shaman, who if not dealt with either, will also cause problems for many years to come.
While at the same time the NRF will within a few years be reduced to two perhaps three (Magnus) public figures, so there is no other popular couple who can be the darlings of the NRF and take the spotlight for a number of years to come - I doubt Ingrid will get married and have children within the next five years.
And if one of these two or three remaining becomes seriously unpopular (Haakon) then the NRF has reached a critical point.
So Ingrid (and Magnus) better be perfect and so does her spouse.
But back to the initial argument, so far the NRF has handled this terribly. Especially on a personal level, because I think there can be little doubt by now that Mette Marit and also Haakon, have done what they could to shield Marius from consequences or at the very least have been exceptionally passive.
And their PR policy has been: say nothing and pretend everything is normal and then the whole thing may eventually blow over - it won't!
I think it's now time for King Harald to step forward and admit that the NRF has a major problem, that hasn't been dealt with in the best possible way and that they are now trying to figure out how to handle it. Because sometimes total honesty is the best way out. At least with King Harald, people may still listen and believe he is sincere.
I.e. doing a QEII after the death of Diana.
And as you know from other monarchies, sometimes drastic measured needed to be taken as a part of the damage control.
It's about time the NRF realize that as much as they'd like to, they are
not a normal family and need to act as such.