Last weekend Princess Astrid's youngest son, Carl-Christian Ferner, married Anna-Stina Slattum Karlsen, to whom he became engaged in January. The wedding was held in Ris Church in Oslo and the reception at Grand Hotel.
According to the magazine Se og Hør the wedding was attended by the King and Queen, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, Princess Märtha Louise and Ari Behn. Princess Astrid and her husband Johan Martin Ferner, who at 87 is rarely seen in public, were of course also present along with the groom's siblings Cathrine, Benedikte, Alexander and Elisabeth with their partners and children. Also in attendance were Erling S. Lorentzen, Princess Ragnhild's widower, their three children Haakon, Ingeborg and Ragnhild, and the groom's great-aunt, Princess Kristine Bernadotte.
Carl-Christian Ferner, who will turn 42 this month, works for the family business Ferner Jacobsen, a men's clothing store of which he owns 46 % of the shares. Anna-Stina Slattum Ferner is born in 1984 and is a digital editor in the company Orkla.
Could the King of Norway (theoreticly, gr.l. § 34) give his family members titles like Count or Baron? Thomas B
ReplyDeleteThe King can only give titles to those who are in line of succession (which excludes Princess Astrid's children, if they were who you referred to), but that would have to be royal titles as the nobility was abolished in 1821.
DeleteIs it customary for Norwegians with two family names (for instance, married women who retain their maiden names as middle names) to use both, or is the middle name dropped in day-to-day use?
ReplyDeleteWell, that varies a lot, depending on what individuals wish. To name just one example close to home, I always use both names (to the extent that "Trond Isaksen" is just not me), while my mother uses only Isaksen. Other people I know use both surnames sometimes and only one at other times. (It might be added that the first family name is legally a middle name).
DeleteThe majority of Norwegian women still take their husband's surname, sometimes as a replacement of their own, sometimes as an addition. Among my female friends who have had two surnames and married in recent years I have noticed that several have done the same as Anna-Stina Slattum Karlsen/Ferner seems to have done, i.e. kept the first and replaced the second with the husband's.