Trond Norén Isaksen

I recently wrote about some of the royalty-related books expected in 2010 and here are some additions to that list. It seems the upcoming w...

Together with Hans D. F. Linstow , Christian Heinrich Grosch (1801-1865) was the most important architect in Norway in the years after the c...

Yesterday it was confirmed what has been assumed for a long time, namely that the Swedish Parliament will host a concert in Stockholm’s Conc...

Prince Oscar Bernadotte , the second son of King Oscar II and Queen Sophia, lost his status as a member of the Swedish-Norwegian Royal House...

The British actress Jean Simmons died from lung cancer yesterday, aged 80. She appeared in more than 70 films, among them Désirée in 1954, ...

If the concept of monarchy, with its ceremonies, traditions and costumes, may be viewed as a performance, Margrethe II is its leading lady. ...

The results from yesterday’s election to fill the US Senate seat from Massachusetts left vacant by the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy l...

Jan Mårtenson is perhaps best known as a crime writer, but he has also written a number of books on cultural history. His latest such title ...

Last April I mentioned that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was expected to pay a state visit to Norway soon. Today the Norwegian Royal C...

A few days ago there was an obituary in Svenska Dagbladet of Gunnar Brodin, former Marshal of the Realm at the Swedish royal court, who die...

The notoriously unreliable journalist Herman Lindqvist, who is for some reason relied on as an an “history expert” by the Swedish royal cour...

Daily Mail today reports that the succession to the dukedom of Wellington (and a whole string of other titles, including Prince of Waterloo)...

The Winter Palace The Church on Spilt Blood, built on the spot where Aleksandr II was assassinated A sphinx, aged 3,300 Soviet architecture ...

At the end of December NRK broadcast the drama series “Harry & Charles”, which dealt with Prince Carl and Princess Maud of Denmark and t...

One may wonder what might be the purpose of yet another book on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Britain. One reason for writing one migh...

In 2006 the Swedish journalist Henrik Arnstad published his biography of Christian Günther, the country’s wartime foreign minister who bears...

The National Museum’s department of architecture will later this year arrange the exhibition “Slottet og Linstow – Den nye hovedstadens grun...

A new year has dawned and that offers a good opportunity to take a look at some of the books which can be expected in 2010. Among them are s...

Today I have an article in Aften (the evening issue of Aftenposten ) in which I reveal that, contrary to what has generally been thought, Os...

Ex-King Konstantinos and ex-Queen Anne-Marie of the Hellenes yesterday announced the engagement of their second son, Prince Nikolaós, and Ta...