Norwegian royal family
consists of the dynastic family of the monarch
Members of the Norwegian royal family are people related to King Haakon VIII who hold royal titles. The term does not include non-royal relatives. The current family who holds the throne are members of the House of Glücksburg who ascended to the Norwegian throne after the election of Prince Carl of Denmark as King of Norway (regnal name Haakon VII) during the dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian union in 1905.
The monarch, if male, is titled king. His wife is titled queen. They are entitled to the style Majesty. The heir apparent to the Norwegian throne is crown prince or crown princess, with the style Royal Highness. The children of the reigning monarch and the children of the heir apparent are princes and princesses. Only the eldest child of the heir apparent is a Royal Highness, while the others do not have any styles in Norwegian, although the style of Highness may be used informally in foreign languages. In Norway there is traditionally no distinction between the royal house (kongehuset) and the royal family (kongelige familie).
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