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In an interview with TV2, Princess Märtha Louise of Norway talked about her former husband’s suicide on Christmas Day 2019. The news of Ari Behn’s death shook the whole of Norway. It was already known that The Royal Family received the news while celebrating at the royal lodge of Kongsseteren in Holmenkollen. But only now has Märtha Louise revealed how she received the message.
Princess Martha says:
“We actually had a really nice Christmas. We sat and watched “Home Alone 2” on the TV. It was very cozy. Then dad came in and said it to me, and then I had to say it to the children. It is one of the toughest things I have ever done. But you just have to do it.”
Photo by Simen Sund / The Royal Court
Crown Prince Haakon has commemorated the murder of Benjamin Hermansen, twenty years after his racial killing shocked Norway. The Crown Prince sent a digital message on the 20th anniversary of his death.
Benjamin Hermansen was killed in the infamous “Holmila-murder” on January 26 in 2001. He was just 15 years old and he was killed because he was black. Two Norwegian neo-Nazis were later convicted of the murder. Benjamin’s death had a deep impact across Norway and is considered to have had a major effect the on the Norwegian anti-racism movement.
Despite strict infection control measures, several hundred candles had been lit by a bust of the killed 15-year-old which has been erected at the place where he was killed. The Crown Prince wanted to participate in person in the commemoration but due to the strict infection control rules he had to take part remotely. In his digital message, Crown Prince Haakon said:
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