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Hollywood actress Sharon Stone has managed to get on the wrong side of Norway's royal family during a trip to Oslo.

The Basic Instinct star was due to host a banquet which was held in honour of winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Norwegians are famously punctual and it is customary for royalty to be the last to arrive at any event.

However, Stone apparently is not up on her royal etiquette and turned up at the banquet well after King Harald and Queen Sonja.

Guests were even specifically asked to arrive well before proceedings began so that they would be in place when the royals arrived.

'When the king is invited to such an event, guests need to have a very good reason for arriving after he does,' Carl-Erik Grimstad, a former palace official, told Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten.

'I'm sure that if she didn't have a good reason, she'll be sorry about it. But when that's said, I would think the king will be fairly relaxed about her blunder.'

Sharon Stone's choice of clothes during her trip has also courted controversy after blogging website Perezhilton.com reported that she was seen buying and wearing fur.

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