Her godparents are her grandfather King Harald V, her uncle Crown Prince Haakon, Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, her aunt Anja Sabrina Bjørshol, her mother's cousin Marianne Ulrichsen, the actor Kåre Conradi and the politician Trond Giske.

[7][8] Maud Angelica Behn is the eldest grandchild of Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja.

Controversially, women born between 1971 and 1989 (in practice, only Behn's mother Märtha Louise), were given succession rights, but primogeniture would not apply.

[9] The Behn family lived in Islington, London, then in New York, and finally in Lommedalen, a valley outside Oslo.

[17] Ten thousand copies were printed,[18] and on release the book went straight to first place on the Norwegian Booksellers Association bestseller list.