30 Facts About Ari Behn

Ari Behn held no title or special status, and he remained a private citizen during the marriage.

Ari Behn took part in other creative and artistic endeavours such as the design of a china set named "Peacock".

Ari Behn had two younger siblings, Anja Sabrina and Espen, neither of whom use the name Behn.

Ari Behn was a founding member of Den Nye Vinen, an anarchist artist collective announced in Oslo in 1993 that included Bertrand Bisigye, Henning Braathen, and Per Heimly.

Ari Behn achieved literary success in Norway with his first collection of short stories, titled Trist som faen, in 1999.

Ari Behn's work received several good reviews and sold more than 100,000 copies.

Together with his wife, Princess Martha, Ari Behn wrote a book about their wedding in 2002.

Ari Behn participated in various creative projects, for example, the design of a china set named "Peacock" for Magnor Glassverk, and he was a model for a clothing chain.

Ari Behn appeared in the comedy films Team Antonsen in 2004 and Long Flat Balls in 2006.

Ari Behn was a freelance writer for several newspapers and magazines.

Ari Behn was a playwright; his first play, Treningstimen debuted in 2011.

From 2013 until his death in 2019, Ari Behn was active as a painter in a neo-expressionist tradition; he cited Jean-Michel Basquiat as his most important inspiration.

Ari Behn exhibited his work internationally, including at Gabba Gallery's exhibit Borderless: Scandinavia in Los Angeles in 2018.

Ari Behn was paired with the Scandinavian painters Mikael Persbrandt and Espen Eiborg and artwork from the trio has been shown in over 60 international galleries since 2017.

Ari Behn published Inferno in 2018 which detailed the aftermath of his divorce and included some of his struggles with mental health.

On 24 May 2002, Ari Behn married Princess Martha Louise, the eldest child of Harald V of Norway.

Ari Behn was 31st in the line of succession to the British throne at the time of her birth, being descended from Edward VII.

Ari Behn remained a private citizen and held no title, royal status, or special privileges during the marriage; since 1814, Norway has had no nobility and no concept of commoners, only citizens.

On 5 August 2016, the Royal Court announced that Princess Martha Louise and Ari Behn had started divorce proceedings and intended to share custody of their three daughters.

At the time of his death, Ari Behn was in a relationship with lawyer Ebba Rysst Heilman.

Ari Behn was known for "harsh public feuds" with critics and artists and was often the subject of ridicule in the media.

In later years Ari Behn was reconciled with many of his critics from this period, and public reception became less critical in the late 2010s after he became active as a visual artist.

Ari Behn made headlines in Norwegian newspapers in the autumn of 2006, when he revealed that he voted for the Norwegian Labour Party.

In January 2009, Ari Behn received massive media coverage in the Norwegian press after going on a "personal vendetta" against former palace official Carl-Erik Grimstad, accusing him of spreading tabloid nonsense regarding Ari Behn and his family.

Ari Behn was the subject of a documentary series that followed him during a difficult period around the time of his divorce.

Ari Behn died at his home in Lommedalen on 25 December 2019.

Ari Behn had struggled with alcoholism and mental health problems.

Ari Behn's funeral was held at Oslo Cathedral on 3 January 2020.

Ari Behn's publisher said that Behn left behind a completed manuscript for a children's book that he had written with his eldest daughter Maud Angelica.

Ari Behn's resting place is the Cemetery of Our Saviour.