Dead Man Walking

Aug 22, 2006 12:40

I watched a documentary on TV yesterday; about Norway's Crown Princess and her past and present. Not very interesting, I have to admit that, asI do not really care that much. But anyway, Crown Princess Mette-Marit has had quite excessive past, with lots of partying and one very short-term relationship ended in the birth of a little boy eight months after the break-up. According to that documentary. The gossip magazines have made huge money on her and her past, and some of the sources that documentary used were, exactly, gossip magazines reporters who had now written a biography about the Crown Princess. However, I am sure they would have made a lot more money on this living dead man.
It all started with Mette-Marit falling in love with a fifteen year older man, and she moved into his appartment far away from where her family lived. They even became engaged to marriage. It was he who introduced the coming Crown Princess to house partying. The reason why this man whose name I do not remember is important is because he was a hobby photograoher. And while they lived together, they made a movie showing how they lived, a video they perhaps should not have made. Itis supposed to contain strong scenes featuring Mette-Marit involving both sex and drugs. Luckily, the movie was only meant for them, and not to sell it. So far anyway.

This man is supposed to have been, and maybe still is, madly in love with the Crown Princess, but he became too boring for her. (And what happens when she gets tired of the Crown Prince..?) So she packed her things and left. Some time later, I cannot remember if it was months of years, this man was involved in a serious car accident, I think it was. And this is the documentary's words; right before he died, he got the message that Mette-Marit was pregnant with one of his best friends. I am tempted to add, og så vart han utor såga, but believe it or not, he was not. Mette-Marit met the Crown Prince at a party in Kristiansand once, and then twice, and later, when her kid was abour three years old it became official: Mette-Marit might become Norway's Crown Princess. As everybody will understand, the gossip magazines would offer large amounts of money for the video she and her former fiancee had made together. But dead as he supposedly was, he would not sell.

After some more time, the documentary said, as things were getting serious between the Crown Prince and Mette-Marit, the Castle thought it might be a good idea to secure this video. Pictures of Mette-Marit as kid and on holidays were everywhere, sold to gossip magazines from friends, and her father even was regularly paid by the worst of these magazines. But back to the video. Mette-Marit went herself so seek out her former fiancee, found him, but he would not part with the video. The end of the documentary was like this: And today, a man still sits in his appartment with this video, demanding more money for it than even the gossip magazines are willing to pay. Other reporters think he will wait for Mette-MArit to become Queen and see what it will be worth then. But, was he not dead? Died in a car accident, he did. Or maybe not?
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