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Maud Angelica Behn (born 29 April 2003) is a member of the
Norwegian royal family Members of the Norwegian royal family are people related to King Harald V of Norway or former Norwegian monarchs who are royals and who hold royal titles. The term does not include non-royal relatives. The current family who holds the throne a ...
, however, she is a private citizen and holds no royal title. She is the firstborn child of
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway Princess Märtha Louise of Norway (born 22 September 1971) is a Norwegian self-described clairvoyant, businesswoman and a member of the Norwegian royal family, although she is not a member of the royal house and has no public role. She is marri ...
and her late husband
Ari Behn Ari Mikael Behn (; , or ; 30 September 1972 – 25 December 2019) was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist, best known for his marriage to Princess Märtha Louise of Norway from 2002 to 2017. He held no title or special status, an ...
, and the eldest grandchild of
King Harald V of Norway Harald V (, ; born 21 February 1937) has been King of Norway since 1991. A member of the House of Glücksburg, Harald was the third child and only son of King Olav V of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden. He was second in the Succession to t ...
and
Queen Sonja Sonja (born Sonja Haraldsen; 4 July 1937) is Queen of Norway as the wife of King Harald V. Sonja and the then Crown Prince Harald had dated for nine years prior to their marriage in 1968. They had kept their relationship a secret due to the ...
. Behn came to national attention with the speech she gave at her father's funeral, and in 2021 published her first book. In 2022, she competed in the Norwegian version of ''
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'', '' Maskorama''.


Birth and baptism

Maud Angelica Behn was born on 29 April 2003 at The National Hospital, a University Hospital in
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,
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, where her mother had also been born. Her great-great-grandmother was
Maud of Wales Maud of Wales (Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria; 26 November 1869 – 20 November 1938) was Queen of Norway as the wife of King Haakon VII. The youngest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, she was known as Prin ...
, youngest daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. Behn was christened at Slottskapellet,
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,
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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 Harald V (, ; born 21 February 1937) has been King of Norway since 1991. A member of the House of Glücksburg, Harald was the third child and only son of King Olav V of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden. He was second in the line of succ ...
, her uncle
Crown Prince Haakon Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway (; Haakon Magnus; born 20 July 1973) is the heir apparent to the Norwegian throne. He is the only son of King Harald V and Queen Sonja. Haakon represents the fourth generation of the sitting Norwegian royal fami ...
, Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, her aunt Anja Sabrina Bjørshol, her mother's cousin Marianne Ulrichsen, the actor Kåre Conradi and the politician Trond Giske. She has two younger sisters,
Leah Isadora Behn Leah Isadora Behn (born 8 April 2005) is a member of the Norwegian Royal family. She 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. Sh ...
, born on 8 April 2005, and Emma Tallulah Behn, born on 29 September 2008. The web site of the Norwegian royal family names the members of the family as King Harald and Queen Sonja,
Crown Prince Haakon Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway (; Haakon Magnus; born 20 July 1973) is the heir apparent to the Norwegian throne. He is the only son of King Harald V and Queen Sonja. Haakon represents the fourth generation of the sitting Norwegian royal fami ...
, Crown Princess Mette-Marit,
Princess Ingrid Alexandra Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway (born 21 January 2004) is the elder child of Crown Prince Haakon and the second child of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, and a grandchild of King Harald V. She is second in line of succession to the Norwegian ...
, Prince Sverre Magnus, Princess Märtha Louise, her three daughters, and Princess Astrid.


Succession to the throne

Maud Angelica Behn is the eldest grandchild of Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja. In 1990, the
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was changed, introducing full
cognatic primogeniture Primogeniture () is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit all or most of their parent's estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relat ...
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. Controversially, women born between 1971 and 1989 (in practice, only Behn's mother Märtha Louise), were given succession rights, but primogeniture would not apply. This was controversial. At present, she is fifth in the
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.


Education

The Behn family lived in
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, London, then in New York, and finally in Lommedalen, a valley outside Oslo. In the autumn of 2009, Maud Angelica Behn was enrolled at the Bærum Waldorf School ('), an
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Steiner school in
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, a suburb west of Oslo.


Family

On 5 August 2016, her parents began divorce proceedings, which were finalized in 2017. Ari Behn died by suicide on Christmas Day, 2019, and was buried in Oslo Cathedral. Behn made a speech at her father's funeral and later talked about his death. In an article devoted to the speech, ''
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'' commented "It does not get more powerful than this". 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'',Camilla Einem
Maud Angelica Behn is set to publish her first book
norwaytoday.info, 6 October 2021
her debut as a poet and illustrator, which tells the story of a girl whose life is dark but who learns to weave the threads she cries. Ten thousand copies were printed, and on release the book went straight to first place on the
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bestseller list. Behn regularly publishes her own drawings on
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. In 2021, Princess Märtha Louise stated that she was planning to move to the United States with her daughters when the
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was out of the way, but they did not."PRINCESS PLANS TO MOVE TO THE US: The royal said that her children will ‘of course join’" '' Hola!'', 6 April 2021


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