| Maud Angelica Behn | |||||
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| Born | 29 April 2003 Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Norway | ||||
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| Father | Ari Behn | ||||
| Mother | Princess Märtha Louise of Norway | ||||
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Maud Angelica Behn (born 29 April 2003) is the first child of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and her late husband Ari Behn and the eldest grandchild of King Harald V of Norway and Queen Sonja.
The web site of the Norwegian royal family names the core members of the family as King Harald and Queen Sonja, Crown Prince Haakon, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, Prince Sverre Magnus, Princess Märtha Louise, her three daughters, and Princess Astrid.[1]
Birth and baptism
Maud Angelica Behn was born on 29 April 2003 at Rikshospitalet University Hospital in Oslo, Norway. She is named for her great-great grandmother Maud of Wales, youngest daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom.
She was christened at Slottskapellet, Royal Palace, Oslo, Norway on 2 July 2003, the one-hundredth birthday of her great-grandfather, King Olav V of Norway.
Her godparents are her grandfather King Harald V, her uncle Crown Prince Haakon, Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, her aunt Anja Sabrina Bjørshol, her mother's cousin Marianne Ulrichsen, the actress Kåre Conradi and the politician Trond Giske.
She has two younger sisters, Leah Isadora Behn, born on 8 April 2005, and Emma Tallulah Behn, born on 29 September 2008.
Succession to the throne
Princess Märtha Louise is the first child of King Harald and Queen Sonja, and Maud Angelica is their eldest grandchild. In 1990, the Norwegian constitution was changed, introducing full cognatic primogeniture to the Norwegian throne, so that the eldest child, regardless of sex, comes first in the line of succession. However, this change was made without displacing Crown Prince Haakon, as it only affects those born after 1989. Women born between 1971 and 1989 (in practice, only Märtha Louise), were given succession rights, but primogeniture would not apply. This was controversial, and if it were to be reversed Maud Angelica would be likely to inherit the throne in due course. At present, she is fifth in the line of succession to the Norwegian throne and also 72nd in the line of succession to the British throne.
Education
In the autumn of 2009, she was enrolled at the Bærum Waldorf School (Norwegian: Steinerskolen i Bærum, lit. "The Steiner School in Bærum"), a private school in Bærum, a suburb west of Oslo.[2]
Family break-up
On 5 August 2016, Maud Angelica’s parents began divorce proceedings,[3][4] which were finalized in 2017.[5] Ari Behn killed himself on Christmas Day, 2019, and was buried in Oslo Cathedral.[6]
Maud Angelica made a speech at her father’s funeral and later talked about his death.[7] For her public thoughts on mental illness and suicide, she was awarded the Acute Psychiatry Prize for 2020. In October 2021, she published her first book, Threads of Tears.[8]
Ancestry
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References
- ^ Caroline Hallemann, "Get to Know the Norwegian Royal Family", Town and Country at townandcountrymag.com, 5 April 2021
- ^ "Nå begynner hun på Steinerskolen" (in Norwegian). 9 August 2005. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
- ^ Berglund, Nina (August 5, 2016). "Royal Divorce 'Painful and Sad'". News in English Norway. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
- ^ "Prinsesse Märtha Louise og Ari Behn har bestemt seg for å gå fra hverandre [Princess Märtha Louise and Ari Behn decided to go apart]". The Royal Court (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Her Highness Princess Märtha Louise". The Royal Court. Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ^ Boucher, Phil (3 January 2020). "Princess Martha Louise's Ex-Husband, Ari Behn, Laid to Rest in Oslo Cathedral Following Christmas Day Suicide". People. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ Oskar Aanmoen, Princess Martha Louise’s daughter talks about impact of Ari Behn’s death, royalcentral.co.uk, 18 June 2020
- ^ Camilla Einem, Maud Angelica Behn is set to publish her first book, norwaytoday.info, 6 October 2021