This is Rani's Corner. She gets to put whatever she wants here. This is her version of her bio.

I was born in Oslo, Norway on 12 September 1985 to a Norwegian mother and a half Norwegian, half Portuguese father. They were both special higher-ups in the Norwegian government whose positions cannot be revealed. At the age of six months my home became Svalbard for most of the year and Oslo during the winter. My dad was assassinated in Saint Petersburg when I was four and six months later my mother was killed by a polar bear in a routine Svalbard research hike. They were both given state funerals which were widely covered by the media. As expected, I don't remember much of this.

My guardian became a relative of my mom's who is a member of the Norwegian monarchy (Uncle Sven, even though he's not really an uncle). I attended a private primary school in Oslo while living with Uncle Sven and his wife Inga. I spent the summers with my olive-oil-mogul relatives at their estate in Sintra, Portugal. At seven I was off to Institut Le Rosey, a Swiss boarding school. By this time I was fluent in Norwegian, English, Portuguese, French, and Spanish and had been taking clarinet lessons from an Oslo conservatory professor for three years. My life was fairly uneventful with most of it spent at Le Rosey and the rest split between Sintra and Oslo. One summer I spent in Japan with a classmate and another in Johannesburg as part of a school project, but that's basically it.

When I was 13, though, I became interested in taking part in a foreign exchange program. Since I had actually never been to California except for LAX, I set my sights on the west coast. I was 14 when I was placed with a family in a rural community near California's "gold country." I spent a year at Golden Sierra High School where I met my future fiancé in the school's atrocious band. My family, who I really consider the most "real" family I've ever had, let me stay for part of the summer and I attended at local band camp before returning to Europe. The next year was my last at Le Rosey - I ended up missing my new "family" in California and decided to move back to the states. I spent two summers in Michigan at the Interlochen Arts Camp and flew between the real relatives, but for the most part enjoyed my new life as an average California high school student. I had spent so many years living a "lavish" international lifestyle that to assume an American identity and lifestyle was the perfect choice for me. Since moving to California I've become a US citizen and besides from my Europe visits have in every way become what I guess is a "normal" American girl (even though few have stories of meeting important international diplomats and celebrities at state dinners and benefit galas).