“I am so happy to announce that I am engaged to the shaman Durek, the one who makes my heart beat,” Märtha Louise from Norway said in an Instagram post on Tuesday, June 7.
A marriage proposal which previously required the agreement of the parents of the latter as testified by the future groom to the Danish magazine devoted to royalty and celebrities
Billed-Bladet
: “I am very old-fashioned in my way of doing things.
Therefore, I sat down with King Harald and Queen Sonjia to ask for their daughter's hand in marriage.
Before adding: “If they had said no, I would not have continued.
I do things in an honorable and respectful way”.
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After the accepted request, the princess shared her happiness on social networks: “I am so happy to announce that I am engaged to the shaman Durek, the one who makes my heart beat, the one who sees me and recognizes me from my highest potential, who makes me laugh and with whom I can be vulnerable.
Love transcends us and makes us grow.
And I'm so happy to continue growing with this handsome man.
Thank you to all my friends and family who have stayed by our side.”
Three years ago, it was also via Instagram that the eldest of the royal family announced their relationship: “Durek changed my life as he changes that of so many people, wrote Princess Märtha Louise, 47.
He made me realize that unconditional love does exist on this planet.
He welcomes all of me without question or fear.
(...) Thank you, my love, for having so generously included me in your family.
I love you from this eternity to another”.
Before anticipating criticism: “It's not up to you to choose for me or to judge me.
I don't choose my man to satisfy each of you or the standards or boxes you have chosen in your mind to put me in.
(…) I choose love.
And that's all".
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"This goddess whom I honor and venerate"
Durek Verrett had also published images of his couple on his own Instagram account and had delivered the same passionate declaration.
The daughter of King Harald V and Queen Sonja exhibits 'pure acceptance of my multi-dimensional self', he wrote in esoteric style in the caption of the images.
“Not just the shaman, but also the woman in me, the strong man in me, the little boy and the jaguar, the scientist and the angel and more.
All of this is loved by this goddess whom I honor and revere.”
Durek Verrett, who not only calls himself a shaman but also a "women's empowerment leader" and "human rights activist", according to his Instagram description, is particularly known for having counted Gwyneth Paltrow among his clients.
Durek Verrett appears from
the site of the actress and queen of well-being.
The couple formed by the "goddess" and the shaman is not surprising when we know that the princess, passionate about alternative medicine, claims to be able to communicate with animals and angels.
The eldest sister of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway even created a School of Angels in Oslo in 2007.
Consider an alternative therapy center where students learned to communicate with their angels and heal themselves through touch.
Controversial, the establishment closed its doors in 2019. Märtha Louise from Norway is also an author, notably of children's stories.
She had renounced her title of royal highness in 2002 to free herself from her obligations and devote herself to her private activities.
This is not the first union of the princess who married the Norwegian writer Ari Behn in 2001, with whom she had three children and from whom she divorced in 2017. The author in particular of
Sad as Hell,
who suffered from chronic depression, had ended his life in December 2020. Princess Märtha Louise had paid tribute to him with great emotion.