#ari behn

[royal-confessions]

“I liked princess Martha Louise more when she was with Ari behn then now with that weird American shaman guy Derek who literally scams people.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[ifreakingloveroyals]

[nordfjording]

but i also think the often-missed irony of durek vs the people is how eager this ridiculous top-of-the-class validation-hungry populous would've been to hold him up as a token of how modern and folksy our monarchy is. if he was even a halfway decent guy we would've given ourselves carpal tunnel from criclejerking over what a wonderful and inclusive country we have where even our most archaic institutions are hashtag progressive enough to wed a black american.

[omgthatdress]

actually i’m so sorry for the princess’ kids. like being royal must suck enough already but with those parents ???? poor things

okay, here's the full story: Märtha Louise has always been fucking kooky. Like for real if she weren't a princess she'd be a cult leader. She claims to be clairvoyant and in 2007 started her own school to teach alternative medicine (you know, shit that's not medicine at all). She lost the title of "Royal Highness" in 2002 and she's not a member of the royal house and had no public role.

HOWEVER, she was previously married to a man named Ari Behn, who was an artsy sad sack who was pretty respected as a writer but derided as an amateur when it came to his visual art. The two divorced in 2017, and then in 2019, he died by suicide. Genuinely fucking tragic.

So OBVIOUSLY there's trauma there. Like if her woowoo beliefs already had her believing in shaman types, the trauma of her husband's death had to have left her super susceptible to the right charismatic charlatan who tells her everything she wants to hear and gives her all the validation she's willing to ignore a million red flags for.

Honestly it kind of sounds like something a lot of families are dealing with: a loved one gets swept up into Q-Anon/Trump cult bullshit (the woo to Q pipeline is REAL) and you don't really know how to deal with it because the situation is fucking awful but you still love the person in spite of everything.

Or at least that's me projecting all my bullshit into the situation and how I'd be pitching it as a screenplay. Netflix HMU.

The whole mess has actually seriously damaged the reputation of the Norwegian royal family and along with calls for her to lose her title of "princess" it's created a pretty big movement calling for the abolition of the monarchy.

Which is surprising because the Norwegian monarchy is actually fairly low-key. King Harald is good at being genial and non-political and they're mostly involved in promoting Norwegian cultural stuff, which kinda seems like how you should do a monarchy, if you're gonna do one.

But then again it just underlines how inherently fucked up the institution of a monarchy is to begin with.

Anyway have you figured out already that monarchy as a metaphor for generational trauma is my absolute favorite trope and I absolutely lose my fucking shit whenever I see it playing out in public?

[awesomecooperlove]

Kevin Spacey flew with Jeffrey Epstein and was named in his little black book. Multiple men have come forward to accuse Spacey of sexuaI assault when they were young boys.

This is what happened to the people who came forward against Spacey:

1. Dead, suicide (Ari Behn)

2. Dead, hit by a car (Linda Culkin)

3. Dead, cause unknown (John Doe)

4. Case suddenly dropped (07/2019)

After Kevin Spacey’s accusers mysteriously died he made this video before the start of the New Year.

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[duchessofostergotlands]

Prince Sverre Magus of Norway brought his girlfriend along for the festivities of Martha Louise wedding. Is that a first that a non spouse has publicly appeared? Also super cute that she was wearing an old dress of mette marit.

Girlfriends and boyfriends have been to plenty of non-state events in Norway. Marius's then girlfriend Juliane attended Sverre Magnus's confirmation, Ari Behn's funeral and was even in the royal family's Christmas photo! Other royal families have also had girlfriends at weddings. Sofia was at Madeleine's wedding and arrived with members of the extended royal family, Charlene went with Albert to Victoria's wedding before their engagement was announced, Carina went to Marie and Joachim's wedding with Gustav. So it's not unusual for partners to be invited to events, especially something like this which isn't a state event and so is just actual friends and family. Of course it does suggest it's not a casual relationship but it's not totally unheard of. The only reason a girlfriend hasn't gone to a wedding in Norway is because they haven't really had a non-state wedding like this :)

[therealvinelle]

How does Norway view it’s royal family I’m from Canada and lets just say that we are not big monarchy fans. But I wonder about other countries because commonwealth countries are kind of in a unique situation where their royalty is actually royalty of another country (Britain) and we just pay for it. (no seriously, we pay more for the monarchy in canada than the uk does)

I can't speak for everyone, but I personally am in favor of having a royal family and would find it disappointing and a change for the worse if we became a republic.

The monarchy in Norway came about the right way, when the country became independent in 1905 the people voted with an overwhelming majority in favor of getting the Danish prince Carl to become our king. It was in order words not something imposed upon us by a thousand years of feudalism, but a newly independent people's choice to have a king of our own.

King Haakon proceeded to, when Norway was occupied by the Germans, refuse to accept our government's formal request to disband (as they had been driven into exile and could no longer govern), as well as refuse to surrender. Did this lead to war, yes, but it also meant that through the war we remained an occupied country with a legitimate government overseas broadcasting to every citizen by radio that we could look towards in place of the occupying government imposed upon us.

After King Haakon there was King Olav, who took the bus during the 1973 energy crisis so as to lead by example, and went skiing in the woods like everybody else, he was an immensely popular king. Now there is King Harald, who married a commoner in Queen Sonja and whose children have made even more scandalous marriages (Princess Märtha married an artist and author, Ari Behn, while the crown prince Haakon married a single mother of a child out of wedlock who was and in certain circles remains viewed as very low class), but both Harald and Sonja are very loved. Harald famously is very witty, and more importantly he is a very inclusive and kind-hearted person who made it explicitly clear he is as much the king of immigrants and LGBT people as he is everybody else. He has also competed in the Olympics seveal times, we love an athlete.

The big eyesore is Princess Märtha, whose sins and scandals are money but in a nutshell, she made the choice to be financially independent (good!) only to then do so in the worst ways she could manage. There was the angel school, where you would go learn how to speak with angels (I once went to a party where we read her book and followed her instructions on finding your aura, great fun and I recommend this for a party game), which had everyone laughing at her, to the much less funny adventure she is now on, where she has... gone full Gwyneth Paltrow. As in, she is engaged to a shaman who says children with cancer must have wished the cancer upon themselves and he will also cleanse women's vaginas of evil if they've had too much sex, and she has toured the country with this man using her princess title (The tour was called "The princess and the shaman") which... yes. When they are criticized, they say it's racism because he is black, this has not endeared them to many either.

She can live her life how she wishes, the fact that what she wishes is to give a platform to a man who talks about being a lizard who contains ancient spirits and also the 5G net is bad is what makes people upset and lose respect for the monarchy as a whole.

Personally, I remain in favor of the monarchy because she'll never be on the throne, she is already irrelevant in every way that matters. The relevant royals we do have do their jobs well and responsibly, which is where my wanting to have a monarchy in the first place comes in: I believe in the constitutional monarchy as we practice it in Norway.

The people who make the decisions will be elected by the people, but the person representing the country, whose job is only to represent and better the country through charities and strengthened diplomatic ties, has an advantage if he isn't political and gains a continuity from not being replaced every time he loses the election cycle. In these times of rising populism I think the advantage to having an apolitical head of state and military is even greater. We could in theory vote a populist party into power but we wouldn't have a populist president, the way certain countries experienced not too long ago and stand to do now. As for how one should go about finding such a non-political, continuous leader of the country, I think inheriting the position is as good a way as any to keep the transferrance of power from one sovereign to the next from getting political. In other words, monarchy but keep it constitutional.

(I'm also colored by how King Haakon handled the occupation, as well as how the King of Spain as recently as in 1981 prevented a military coup in Spain by denouncing the military's actions. How relevant these events are to the present day can be debated, but I think the past couple of years have proven that we should not take the status quo for granted and our democracies can come under threat. When they do, I prefer to have every safeguard imaginable in place for them. If that safeguard spend their time promoting art and charity that's just a big bonus.)

[theroyalsandi]

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden arrives for the wedding of Princess Martha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn at the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway | May 23, 2002

[charlotte-of-wales]

Happy 19th birthday to Leah Isadora Behn!

Born 8 April 2005, Leah Isadora Behn is the second daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and her late former husband Ari Behn, and a grandchild of King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway. She is the sixth in the line of succession to the Norwegian throne.

Some of Leah’s public activities include modeling, photography, and makeup tutorials. She has her own YouTube channel as well as a TikTok page.

At her christening, Princess Märtha Louise, revealed that the name Leah had been inspired by the Star Wars character Princess Leia. Behn has an older sister, Maud Angelica, and a younger one, Emma Tallulah. The family lived in Islington, London, then in New York, and finally in Lommedalen, near Oslo.

[royal-confessions]

“Shady Shaman Durek is now claiming Ari Behn talks to him regularly?  If Martha-Louise doesn't come to her senses now, there's no saving her or her daughters.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[europesroyalsweddings]

✵ May 24, 2002 ✵

Princess Märtha Louise of Norway & Ari Behn

[ifreakingloveroyals]

[culturaaetatis]

Cultura Ætatis nyhetsbrev i dag handlar om:

Varför vågar inte P3 Dokumentär ta bladet från munnen i programmet om Sara Danius och krisen i Akademien? Utan att ställa de svåra frågorna kommer händelserna aldrig att kunna förstås utifrån de verkligt bakomliggande problemen. Vi lyfter på locket.

Går det att tränga bakom den officiella bilden av Ari Behn, författaren och kronprinsessan Märtha Louise make - och av den bild han gav av sig själv. Ja, under vissa speciella omständigheter - som den vi berättar i nyhetsbrevet.

Vem ordnar en skönhetstävling i en belägrad stad? Andra delen i vår vindlande serie om hur de som bekämpar antisemitism och de som är antisemiter tillsammans försvårar vår förståelse av historiska skeenden.

Detta plus erbjudanden och naturligtvis vår populära Super-Kultur-Quiz men hela fyra böcker i potten denna vecka.

Missa inte Sveriges skarpaste kulturbevakning. Nyhetsbrevet som är din kulturbilaga hela veckan.

I nästa nyhetsbrev: Kultursvep Europa. Vilken riktning tar Franrike? Blir det amerikansk mat och bilder istället för text? Spanien står inför ett riktigt intressant kulturkrig och Italiens fascister delar den svenska värdegrunden.

[royalweddingcakes]

Princess Märtha Louise of Norway & Ari Behn.

May, 24 2002

[rebeleden]

Watch "Ari Behn, Writer And Kevin Spacey Accuser, Dies At 47 | TIME" on YouTube

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[charlotte-of-wales]

Happy 21st birthday to Maud Angelica!

Born on April 29th 2003, Maud Angelica Behn is the first child of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn, as well as the eldest grandchild of King Harald V of Norway and Queen Sonja. She is currently fifth in the line of succession to the Norwegian throne.

Maud was christened at Slottskapellet, Royal Palace, Oslo, Norway on July 2nd 2003; her godparents include her grandfather King Harald V, her uncle Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg.

Fun fact: in 2022 she competed in the Norwegian version of the Masked Singer, Maskorama.