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The sorcerer, the princess and the pimp.

With these three archetypes and a pinch of imagination, the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen would have created a piece as extraordinary as 'A Doll's House'.

A Nordic princess,

Marta Luisa of Norway,

who in search of herself falls in love with a black shaman,

Durek Verrett, who

came from distant California.

In the royal house, the most influential in Europe, the uproar is enormous, not because of the color, but because of their supercheer way of making a living.

At the apex of the triangle, the actress

Gwyneth Paltrow,

of whom it is said that one day she drank the winds for our King Felipe VI.

She has blessed her engagement ring to her crush, making her official matchmaker.

The boyfriend

There is a lot of talk about Shaman Durek - that's what he calls himself - but almost everything is unlikely, given his tendency to dress his biography with details that are later denied, such as his employment in an Israeli hospital.

He confesses to being

bisexual, vegan and well versed in the hallucinogenic powers of plants.

He is spiritually enlightened and when he falls into a trance he says that he communicates with his ancestors.

In his delusions he claims to have risen from the dead and that in his previous life he was a king in love with a princess.

Ecstasy places him in Ancient Egypt.

He is pharaoh and Marta Luisa is his queen.

He has convinced the princess that everything is being fulfilled according to the designs of

an oracle

that his mother revealed to him as a child.

He shelters his superpowers in his old lineage.

With him there are already six generations of healers.

Marta Luisa from Norway and Durek Verrett, in Oslo in 2109.Gtres

It was his mother who intuited his shamanic skills when she was carrying him in her womb and at 11 began his preparation.

He has a reputation as a trickster

and has pocketed numerous celebrities who pay exorbitant amounts for his sessions.

Some go up to a thousand dollars.

That he sympathizes with Gwyneth Paltrow is not unusual, since they share his passion for pseudoscience.

Durek says she is his soulmate and the actress addresses him as "my light in shining armor."

Girlfriend

Nor does it sound strange that Marta Luisa has fallen under her spell.

Since she was little, she has shown a free and sensitive spirit.

She always liked her horse stables better than palatial rugs.

Her decision in 2002 to marry the bohemian artist and transgressor Ari Behn, who took his own life in 2019, raised dust in the country.

In 2007

she opened a center for alternative therapies

that taught people clairvoyance, healing and communication with angels.

In 2017, coinciding with her divorce, she ended her business.

With her newly announced engagement, both the royal family and the Norwegian people think the matter has literally gotten out of hand.

Norway, a country with world-class scientific and medical advancement,

cannot applaud her princess's engagement

to a shaman.

Her book of shamanic tricks, 'Spirit Hacking', was pulled from publishers in 2019 for claiming that unhappy children get cancer, in addition to other pseudoscientific nonsense.

Your way of working

Durek's extravagant practices range from vomiting to rid the body of poisons to cleansing the lymphatic system by bringing

his hands too intimate.

In one of his strange sessions was when he tricked the princess into believing the oracle's hoax.

"Being with a shaman is something extremely unusual. Crazy," she confesses with the engagement ring on one of her fingers.

Durek, who strives to live up to the royal family, commissioned the ring from

designer Joy Sangalang Smith,

whose designs are inspired by rituals and the presence of a higher spirit.

Between emeralds and diamonds, the jewel tells her love story and honors the three daughters of the princess, her mother and also the Viking roots.

As soon as she had it in her possession, she ran to show it to Paltrow.

"He told me it was the most fantastic ring he had ever seen and that he knew Princess Martha would love it and appreciate it," she said.

After the blessing, the request came.

The sorcerer chose a farm in San Juan Capistrano (California), under a huge tree and surrounded by horses.

He knelt nervously and proudly to be the

first black member of a European royal family.

She, too, trembled with excitement.

More than 8,000 kilometers away, some octogenarian kings, Harald and Sonia, have decided that the wisest thing is to give their consent, even with the suspicion that this unconventional story will not have a happy ending.

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