Norwegian royal Princess Martha Louise has told how she has been haunted by the ghost of a Nazi SS general who shot himself in her childhood palace bedroom.
Waffen SS General Wilhelm Rediess set up home in the royal family’s Skaugum Castle during the German occupation of Norway during World War II.
But he committed suicide on 8th May 1945 rather than face justice when Germany surrendered to Allied forces.
Now Martha Louise, 52, has revealed that for years as a teenager, she was haunted by Rediess, who used to appear to her in her bedroom and try to throttle her, she said.
She told the ‘Modern Royalty’ podcast: “When I moved into this room, I became terribly afraid of the dark. And there was a man staring at me.”
She continued: “I told everyone. Every night, my nannies or my parents would look behind the curtains, pull them back and say, ‘Look, there is no one behind the curtains. There is no one here’.”
But Martha Louise said she did not learn the full horrific truth about her haunting until decades later when her father, now King Harald V, revealed the room’s macabre past.
She said that when she reminded her father of her terror he told her: “Oh, that’s the room where the Nazi general took his own life.”
Martha Louise told the podcast she thought: “It’s only now that you are telling me this?”
Rediess lived like a king in Norway after the 1940 invasion and was Adolf Hitler’s right-hand man in the country.
He was directly responsible for the mass deportation of Jewish Norwegians to death camps, where they were murdered.
Rediess rose from SS-Obergruppenfuehrer, General of the Police and Higher SS and Police Leader to a General of the Waffen SS in 1944.
World War II expert Asbjoern Svarstad has confirmed to local media that Rediess had been found dead on a sofa in what became the princess’ bedroom when she was 14.
Self-styled clairvoyant Martha Louise, fourth in line to Norway’s throne, had to step down from royal duties in 2022 over her partner Dureck Verrett’s controversial views.
Former jailbird Verrett claims to be a shaman and believes sadness causes child cancer.
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