The annual report of The Royal Court 2025

Their Majesties The King and Queen visited both Bjørnøya and Spitsbergen in June 2025 against a backdrop of increasing global focus on the Arctic and the centenary of the Svalbard Act. in August, exactly 100 years after the Norwegian flag was first raised over Svalbard, it was hoisted once again during a ceremony at which the Crown Prince repeated the message from 1925: "Raise the flag!"

During 2025, members of the Royal House of Norway visited 49 municipalities across 14 counties and hosted nearly 2,000 guests. Members of the Royal Family also visited nine countries, including France, the United Kingdom and Italy, and His Royal Highness The Crown Prince paid official visits to Ukraine, Poland and the United States.

Her Royal Highness Princess Ingrid Alexandra completed her initial national service in April 2025 as a gunner on a CV90 armoured engineer vehicle in the Engineer Battalion at Skjold Camp. The Princess took part in her first State Visit when the President of Iceland visited Norway, and she gave her first audience at the Royal Palace, to the Children's Climate Panel. In August 2025, the Princess began a bachelor's degree programme in social sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia, specialising in international relations and political economy.

The Royal Court assists The King and the Royal Family in carrying out the duties of their vocation. The role as a public family inherently entails strengths as well as vulnerabilities. Events involving individual members of the family have an impact on the nation at large. The members of the Royal Family encounter this in good times - when many join in to celebrate joys and milestones together with them. And they encounter it during more difficult times - both through public solicitude and through intense media attention.

Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been open about her chronic illness, pulmonary fibrosis, for several years. In December 2025, the Royal House announced that there has been a clear deterioration in the Crown Princess's health, and that doctors at Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet have begun the prosess towards an evaluation for potential lung transplant surgery.

The Royal Court has been carrying out efforts to improve efficiency and digitise operations over several years. In the course of this process, the number of full-time positions has been reduced from 150 to 140. In 2025, the Royal Court has given priority to increasing its maintenance and development budget, implementing new financial management systems, and launching a new version of the website (www.kongehuset.no - www.royalcourt.no).

Annual accounts

The annual accounts for the Civil List show a deficit of NOK 710 000 in relation to the 2025 allocation. The result is in line with expectations, and the deficit will be covered by previously allocated reserves in accordance with the financial plan.

Allocations for multi-year projects under budget line 51 are not fully aligned with progress under the projects, and therefore show an accounting surplus for 2025 of NOK 1.3 million. The surplus is due to the fact that the sarcophagus project - as planned - was not concluded in 2025, while the security project made use of funding from previous years' appropriations set aside for that project. The surplus is to be transferred to appropriations set aside for post 51 projects.

The management accounts for the Royal Court show a deficit of approximately NOK 2 million. The deficit is largely due to a planned high level of activity on maintenance and refurbishment projects at the Royal Palace, as well as major investments in digitalisation.

The annual report and accounts of the Royal Court for 2025 have been submitted to the Presidium of the Storting, the Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance, and the Office of the Auditor General of Norway.

The annual report of The Royal Court (in Norwegian)

• Hoffets årsrapport 2025 (pdf)