Ragnhild Lorentzen

Ragnhild Alexandra Lorentzen (born 8 May 1968) is the youngest daughter of Norwegian businessman Erling Lorentzen (of the Lorentzen family) and Princess Ragnhild of Norway. Her grandfather was the late King Olav V of Norway. Because of her lineage (she is a great-great-granddaughter of Edward VII), she would be in the line of succession to the British throne, but is excluded due to marrying a Catholic. That exclusion will be removed when the Succession to the Crown Act 2013 takes effect, allowing people married to Catholics to inherit the throne. She was born and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, where her family lived since 1953.
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On 21 November 2003, aged 35, she married American Aaron Matthew Long (b. in San Francisco, California, on 11 July 1966). 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 Ranghild have two daughters:
* Alexandra Lorentzen Long, born in Santa Barbara, California, on 14 December 2007.
* Elizabeth Lorentzen Long, born in Santa Barbara, California, 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.
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