Princess Astrid of Norway died at 94 on Friday, two days after King Harald's state funeral. [1] Reuters filed the death; NRK, the Norwegian broadcaster, carried the palace notice the same day. [1][2] This paper printed the death. Monday has no second bulletin from Oslo.

A death notice is not a constitutional crisis. Norway buried a king on Wednesday and lost his sister on Friday; the succession stands settled, and no regency question attaches to a 94-year-old princess's passing. Royal recap accounts repackage the funeral week as fresh mourning because black-and-white palace photography has no timestamp.

Friday's death stays Friday's. Ninety-four stays the age. A recap is not a new notice. Astrid was the late king's sister and a working royal for seven decades, which is why her passing drew a full palace notice rather than a family statement. NRK's carrying of that notice is the authoritative record. Nothing in Monday's Oslo copy adds to it.

Authoritative records stand; NRK's stands. Standing is the update. Mondays add nothing.

Mondays add nothing; Friday's palace notice remains the record. A family statement would have been thinner. Oslo copy is unchanged.

The funeral was Wednesday; the sister's death was Friday. The throne does not wobble because a 94-year-old princess has died. Recaps that treat Monday as a new palace day are restaging grief without a new notice. NRK's Friday carrying still governs the file.
Harald's funeral was Wednesday; the sister's death was Friday. NRK's Friday carrying still governs the file. Monday is not a new palace day.

NRK's Friday carrying still governs the file. Monday is not a new palace day. Monday restages no new palace bulletin.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels