Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
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Princess Märtha Louise of Norway (born 22 September 1971) is a member of the Norwegian royal family, but is not a member of the royal house and has no public role. Märtha Louise is active within alternative therapy and spiritual practices, and is a self-described clairvoyant. She is married to Durek Verrett. A member of the House of Glücksburg, Märtha Louise was born in Oslo in 1971 to then-Prince Harald and the former commoner Sonja Haraldsen. At the time she had no inheritance rights to the Norwegian throne. This changed in 1990, when she was included in the line of succession to the Norwegian throne, where she is currently fourth. Her father became king in 1991. Märtha Louise is engaged in alternative therapy and spiritual practices. From 2007 to 2018 she led her own alternative therapy centre, commonly known in Norway as the "angel school" (Norwegian: engleskolen), which focused on clairvoyance and communication with angels and communication with the dead. She was married to the writer and visual artist Ari Behn from 2002 to 2017. In May 2019, she publicly announced her romantic relationship and professional collaboration with Verrett, a conspiracy theorist and self-described shaman who has served time in prison and who has been characterized by Norwegian media and other critics as a conman. Verrett was included as one of "20 famous conspiracy theorists" alongside David Icke and Alex Jones in an MSN article in 2024. As part of her withdrawal into private professional life, Märtha Louise lost the style "Royal Highness" in 2002. While the lesser style of "Highness" is sometimes used informally abroad, she holds no style in Norway itself. She has often faced criticism in Norway for her claims of being clairvoyant and for exploiting her constitutional role and title as princess commercially (for which she has been derided in Norway as prinsesse Mertakk av Pose og Sekk, "Princess Plenty More of Have-It-All"). There have been frequent calls for her to relinquish her royal title and place in the line of succession. She has become relatively unpopular in Norway and has developed an antagonistic relationship with the media, leading her to declare a total boycott of Norwegian media in 2024.