Ragnhild Lorentzen

Ragnhild Alexandra Lorentzen (born 8 May 1968) was born in Amparo Feminino Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, the youngest daughter of Princess Ragnhild of Norway and Erling Lorentzen. Her grandfather was the late King Olav V of Norway. Because of her lineage, she was 71st in the Line of succession to the British Throne.

Biography

In November 2003, aged 35, she married an American, Aaron Long. Due to the provisions of the Act of Settlement 1701, her marriage to a Roman Catholic removed her from the Lines of Succession to the British throne and the thrones of the other fifteen Commonwealth realms. She currently lives in the United States, where she works in the hospitality industry.

Aaron and Ragnhild Long had a daughter, Alexandra Lorentzen Long, born in Santa Barbara, California on 14 December 2007.^[1] They had a second daughter, Elizabeth Lorentzen Long, in March 2011.

In 2002, the Guardian newspaper attempted to get an interview with Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee. After being declined, the paper then attempted to interview the closest person possible in the line of succession to the Queen. After being turned down by the entire British Royal Family, and their closest descendants, the paper finally managed to interview Ragnhild, at that time 66th in the line of succession.^[2]

Ancestors

References

1. ^ VG 18 December 2007 No. 346, p. 11 (paper edition only).
2. ^ The Guardian interview with Ragnhild Lorentzen 27 May 2002.