Princess Märtha Louise & Durek Verrett: News & Information

[Osipi]

*IF* I had the time and the energy and the inclination to sit Durek Verrett down and could have a heart to heart talk with the man, these sentiments would be the ones I'd love him to really listen to and hear. I didn't write this but I sure wish I'd had. To me, its a synopsis of what a *real* loving relationship involves and for those of us that have actually found it, it is the cherry on the icing on top of the gooey cake that is *life*.

https://www.facebook.com/WifeInTheFa...04338036510468

[HereditaryPrincess]

Originally Posted by Lady Daly

Or perhaps a vaccine to cover overall risk of exposure

Coronavirus shouldn't be one of his main worries!

[angieuk]

If they get married next year, I don't think anyone will be that surprised.
I expect all the publicity will then be over; as what else is there to say!

If the relationship is authentic for both parties; time will tell?

[eya]

Happy Halloween from Martha Louise and Durek!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHA5lPxAcyQ/

[Muhler]

Are they supposed to be spirits of some sorts?

I don't have much experience with spirits, so it's new to me that they are androgynous.

Good make-up work though.

[HereditaryPrincess]

Leah Isadora has a makeup account on Instagram and is quite good at her makeup artistry, so I wonder if she did their Halloween looks?

[MidwestMom]

Originally Posted by acdc1

I honestly feel like I need to get a cavity fixed every time I read something the Shaman says. It’s so disgustingly schmaltzy and saccharine.

And sometimes too much information!

[Countessmeout]

Originally Posted by Muhler

Are they supposed to be spirits of some sorts?

I don't have much experience with spirits, so it's new to me that they are androgynous.

Good make-up work though.

Aliens (though I thought spirit too at first).

The first video they make a mention of 'still have water on their planet'. And in the third one 'we should take her back to our planet'. I would never have guessed if I hadnt turned on the volume at what they are meant to be.

Originally Posted by HereditaryPrincess

Leah Isadora has a makeup account on Instagram and is quite good at her makeup artistry, so I wonder if she did their Halloween looks?

They tagged the makeup artist, and she is actually in the third video.


https://www.instagram.com/mua.inger/

[Tatiana Maria]

Originally Posted by Muhler

That's correct.

I also notice that Durek used the expression "bonus children" when he talked about what they were to him.
That's an expression usually used by someone who has married or is in a marriage-like relationship with someone who has children, but hasn't formally adopted the children - yet.
That means Durek says he consider ML's children to be his own in anything but name, even though he hasn't adopted them. Both in relation to how he feels responsible for them, how he will approach their upbringing and especially how he view his personal relationship with the children. I.e. very close.
It would normally also imply that they consider him to be their "bonus dad" which means their dad in anything but name, though not a formal stepdad. Alternatively that they consider him to be an extra dad whom they are very fond of, just as fond of (or more) as their (living) biological father.

But over the top expressions are, as we all know, not unknown to Durek...

This is the cold/less passionate Scandinavia/Norway - where you don't throw big words like "bonus dad" around without really meaning it.

Thanks! That is informative. I wonder whether it was the original term used by Mr. Verrett, as I suspect he is far from fluent in Norwegian.

Originally Posted by acdc1

I honestly feel like I need to get a cavity fixed every time I read something the Shaman says. It’s so disgustingly schmaltzy and saccharine.

Originally Posted by Lady Daly

Or perhaps a vaccine to cover overall risk of exposure

Originally Posted by Prinsara

You just had to inflict it on the rest of us after inflicting it on yourself, huh, M?

Actually, if it were only taken out of context and divorced from everything else we know about him... it would be almost nice.

Pity about the source (and possibly the recepient).

I've observed a number of European royals and their partners expressing similar sentiments about their spouses or partners, and receiving congratulations and admiration for such comments, so it is probably a matter of culture and preferences.

[LadyFinn]

Svensk Damtidning writes about an article at norwegian gossip magazine Se og hör - Durek's former manager has spoken to Se og hör.
Märtha Louise och Durek i skandal – kvinna träder fram _*Svensk Dam
Translation

[eya]

Martha Louise and Durek as enjoy a day out around in Oslo


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"The Princess and the Shaman" by Vanity Fair. The couple is photographed and talks to the magazine


https://www.vanityfair.com/style/202...and-the-shaman

[Somebody]

That stuff about the waiver that his clients have to sign allowing him to touch them in their private parts and him explaining how many of his clients want to sleep with him is rather disturbing

I didn't know Durek has been married before (to a woman) whom he divorced - I assume before he started living with his boyfriend. Nor did I know that he was born as Derek (not Durek); he only changed his name in 2013.

In addition, it claims that Durek was going to propose to ML in february of this year and that the king and queen approved of it 'after asking about his career prospects'?!

[Muhler]

Ah, they never disappoint, do they?

I predict even more nauseatingly romantic photos appearing and even more interviews of their undying love through since the dawn of time.

And the best is yet to come: Their engagement-interview. Where Durek, will once again, treat us with flowery examples of his infatuation with ML. - Aaand his delight in becoming a member of the NRF.

It's textbook. Create a very positive eve slightly humorous image of yourself, and your victims... eeh, people will be more willing to listen to and accept your arguments and be less critical of you.
After all, who can have anything against Durek? Look how sweet, kind and presentable he is. He he's funny too. Aww.
And look. The sweet, free-spirited Princess is besotted with him. What a nice couple.
After all, shouldn't we all love each other? Join hands and dance through the flower-covered meadows, singing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PylOAy8c_4

[REAL COUNTESS]

Now I really don't get it what she see's in him?. As for me, he makes me feel very uncomfortable. Would not want to be alone in a room with him. And the waiver part is way out there. Hope she wake up soon and smell the coffee before it is to late.

[acdc1]

Originally Posted by Somebody

That stuff about the waiver that his clients have to sign allowing him to touch them in their private parts and him explaining how many of his clients want to sleep with him is rather disturbing

I didn't know Durek has been married before (to a woman) whom he divorced - I assume before he started living with his boyfriend. Nor did I know that he was born as Derek (not Durek); he only changed his name in 2013.

In addition, it claims that Durek was going to propose to ML in february of this year and that the king and queen approved of it 'after asking about his career prospects'?!

I truly cannot see what she sees in him. He is the definition of a snake-oil salesman. If they get married it is going to be... interesting. I can just imagine seeing him at official functions and family events

[Alisa]

I skimmed the interview. I totally get the waiver- it makes sense. What does not make sense to me is why one man has so many people? He has 2 managers, a PR coordinator...etc.
He's going to go bankrupt having to pay all those people.

The pictures are quite nice. Mårtha Louise has always been a beautiful princess so no surprise there and this is the best Durek has ever looked.

I suppose this changes things now. They've just landed a feature in a high profile magazine. I suppose an official engagement is next....

[Prinsara]

Just think, this could be the first royal wedding none of us are interested in watching...

[Princess_Eleanor]

The author of the Vanity Fair article is completely uncritical and gushing about Durek and all his strange stories

But it's very insightful, Märtha and the shaman have certainly provided a lot of personal information for this article. Here are the parts I found most interesting:

"You expressly consent to any and all treatments, methods, and techniques necessary that Shaman Durek may perform in your session as determined by him. This includes but is not limited to physical touching, energy healing, releasing of toxins…, energetic entry or physical touching of my genitals or electric shock treatment in the spine."

"Once upon a time, in an Airbnb in the hills of L.A., a divorced princess rang the doorbell of Durek, Goop’s Goopiest shaman.
“I’ve met you before,” she said. “I know you already.”
“Yes,” he replied. “We were destined to meet before we were born.” They started a friendship, which turned into a romance, which turned into a business with talks and workshops. A royal wedding seems all but inevitable."

"When they met, he had no permanent home, a point of contention among the princess’s circle. “My Norwegian friends who know us, they’re like, ‘Why doesn’t he have a house? Warning! Warning!!’ Because we don’t have many nomads in Norway, so they get very skeptical.”"
(..)

The part about Durek asking his clients to sign an agreement that he is allowed to touch them sexually is incredibly disconcerting.
Not a surprise that the King and Queen did not warm to Durek quickly A wedding does seem to be on the horizon, however. Many of us have assumed so but this really confirms it.

[Prinsara]

Well, Verrett is true to who he is. A liar, fantasist, conman, and likely more. (Does 23andMe even identify obscure people as genetic links?)
At least it's entertaining to think of what Sonja said.

ML, I don't know why you can't see that they wouldn't care if you went with the dogcatcher, as long as he was a good person... Same thing applies to America, believe it or not.

[Somebody]

If she was an underage girl you would think he was a loverboy just gushing over her until she's completely torn away from her family and emotionally depended on him, so he can control her and make her do what he wants her to do.