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Amy Francombe

How Shaman Durek and Princess Märtha became the It-couple of wellness

Durek Verrett is not your typical royal groom.

A sixth generation shaman and spiritual guide to Hollywood’s most goopy (he charges $2,000 an hour for private sessions), the 47-year-old certainly does not fit the regal mold. But the guru, who’s of Haitian and Norweigian descent, is set to marry Princess Märtha Louise of Norway. “She said YES! When you know, you know,” he posted to Instagram after popping the question to the fourth in line to the throne (she falls behind her brother Prince Haakon and his children in the hierarchy). “There is nothing better than having clarity as a man that the woman that stands in front of you is the one.”

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