Royal Author Chats With Heavenly Creatures

Norway’s 35-year-old Princess Martha Louise, author of the 2006 English-language children's book Why Kings and Queens Don’t Wear Crowns, “has shocked the nation by announcing she is a clairvoyant and wants to teach people how to communicate with angels,” according to the Times Online.

Having opened the Astarte Centre for alternative therapy this month, the skilled equestrienne “said she realised as a child that she could read people’s inner feelings, but only developed the ability to talk with angels when, as a keen show jumper, she dealt closely with horses and learnt to connect on a deeper level with animals.’ Writing on the centre’s website Martha Louise described angels as ‘forces that surround us’ and ‘a help in all aspects of our lives.’” To teach angel-whispering skills, she is “offering a three-year training programme at a cost of £2,000 a year.... The princess, who is the only daughter of King Harald V and Queen Sonja, is fourth in line to the throne.”

Princess Martha Louise is married to the bohemian novelist and former forklift driver Ari Behn, whose books include Enthusiasm and Rage and Sad as Hell.