I'm Rebecca Levoy, and this is You Can't Make This Up.

You Can't Make This Up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite Netflix

documentaries and films. On today's episode, we take a stories behind your favorite Netflix documentaries and films.

On today's episode, we take a closer look at the Netflix documentary film Rebel Royals.

A lot of people expected me to be a certain way and live up to what I'm supposed to be.

And I don't.

You know, I choose differently.

And it's so amazing to be seen by somebody who didn't judge me.

Today we're talking to Martha Louise and shaman Durek Verrett.

She grew up as the daughter of the King of Norway.

While living a low-key life as a divorced mother of three,

Martha Louise discovered her true love, Durek Verrett, an American shaman who claims they met in a past life. Now, as the couple plans would amount to a royal

wedding, they show the world what love and companionship look like within their unorthodox

and controversial relationship. The Netflix documentary Rebel Royals offers an intimate look at the unlikely romance

between a Norwegian princess and a mystic from California. The spiritual couple navigates

issues of class, race, and national identity as they prepare for a grand wedding among the

Scandinavian fjords. They address critics in the press and the public who view their union as an oddity and reveal

what life looks like for two unconventional soulmates.

They're painting me to look like I'm some scam artist fraud who's come to take their

princess by using black magic because they don't want a shaman who's black and bisexual marrying their princess.

Martha Louise and Shaman Derek Verrett, welcome to You Can't Make This Up.

Thank you so much.

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