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May the force be with her
17/06/2005 10:06 - (SA)
Oslo - Two-month old Norwegian princess Leah Isadora, whose first name was inspired by Star Wars heroine Princess Leia, was on Thursday christened in the royal palace chapel.
Born on April 8, Leah Isadora is the second child of Princess Maertha Louise and writer Ari Behn, and the third grandchild of King Harald and Queen Sonja.
Her mother told Norwegian paper Aftenposten that Ari Behn had travelled much in the Middle East, "and Leah comes from there".
"And I have to admit that I am a great Star Wars fan and Princess Leia has always been the most beautiful woman in the world," Maertha Louise said.
In the first Star Wars movie trilogy released in the 1970s and 80s, Carrie Fisher played Princess Leia who, unaware that she is the dark lord Darth Vader's daughter, is adopted by the royal family.
Her other first name was inspired by Isadora Duncan, a famous American dancer early in the last century, who was choked to death in 1927 when her scarf got caught in a wheel of her convertible car while she was driving through the French riviera city of Nice.
Leah Isadora is fifth in line to succeed King Harald as sovereign.
- AFP
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