Does Ari Behn's Suicide Mark The End Of The Worst Year For Norwegian Royalty?

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Yesterday Europe woke up with the terrible announcement of the suicide of the ex-husband of Princess Marta Luisa of Norway. The police found his body at his home on Christmas afternoon . E l writer leaves three orphaned teenage father and heartbreak in a family that has a lot to worry about.

Although Prince Haakon, heir to the throne, and his wife Mettte-Marit shared their deepest condolences, "for us Ari was a good friend, a dear family member and a wonderful person with whom we shared great and small moments in life", the couple already lives a hard setback inside doors.

Princess Mette-Marit is diagnosed with chronic pulmonary fibrosis that radically changed her day-to-day life and, although she has good life expectations after having been diagnosed early, it is a very hard reality for this mother of three children from facing the future.

King Harald is also in poor health. Recently he had to suspend his official schedule and his son Haakon had to fill his position in the acts in which the presence of the monarch was expected. Although the official report said that the cause was a viral condition, he also suffers from cancer at 82 years of age, which has the royal family very worried.

Appearing alongside his wife, Queen Sonia, at the traditional Christmas mass in the Holmenkollen church, fans of the Norwegian royals breathed a sigh of relief at seeing him in good health. Nothing foreshadowed the terrible moments they would face hours later, especially the granddaughters who accompanied him, the daughters of Marta Luisa and the sadly deceased Ari Behn.

Among the monarch's various misfortunes, there are always those given by the free soul of his daughter, Princess Marta Luisa, who year after year brings him upside down with her bohemian spirit. In addition to marrying the king of scandals, who was her son-in-law Ari Behn, she had to witness the divorce of her daughter.

A divorce that incidentally marked the deceased artist, who went on to say when speaking of the depression that caused him: “It is a great change. It can be compared to a death”. A phrase that now, under the circumstances, takes another even more painful aspect.

After the divorce, Princess Marta Luisa fell in love with Durek Verrett, a shaman from California, an issue that is also giving the king more than a headache and whom he finally seemed to accept in the royal family precisely on Christmas Day, when arrived at mass with the princess in her first official act. This fact would have grabbed many headlines but it went almost unnoticed in the face of the tragedy that same afternoon with the death of the princess's ex.

Durek Verrett, who is now 45 years old, confirmed the difficulties he faced in falling in love with Marta Luisa in an interview with The Times: “It is very hard for someone of color to become part of the royal family, even more so if the woman is the who falls in love with man. People feel uncomfortable when a white woman chooses a man with black skin, who is also a shaman."