HM King Olav Alexander Edward Christian Frederick Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg

1902 - 1991

• Name	HM King Olav Alexander Edward Christian Frederick Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg  [1]
  Prefix	HM King
  Born	2 Jul 1902	Appleton House, Sandringham near King's Lynn, Norfolk, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Birth	2 Jul 1903	Appleton House, Sandringham near King's Lynn, Norfolk, England   [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Honor	Orders of Seraphim of Sweden
  Honor	Orders of Elephant of Denmark
  Honor	Grand Cross Order of St. Olav of Norway
  Honor	Orders of Croix de Guerre of France
  Honor	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, honorary civil
  Honor	Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, honorary
  Title	18 Nov 1905  [2, 9]
  	Crown Prince of Norway, when father elected King Haakon
  Honor	1955  [10]
  	Royal Victorian Chain
  Title	21 Sep 1957  [2, 11, 12, 13]
  	King of Norway
  Honor	1959  [10]
  	Knight of the Order of the Garter
  Title	Prince of Denmark
  Died	17 Jan 1991	Kongsseteren near Oslo, Norway
  Person ID	I688	European Royalty & Nobility
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2016

  
  

  Father	HM King Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg,   b. 3 Aug 1872, Charlottenlund Castle, Amalienborg, Copenhagen, Denmark ,   d. 21 Sep 1957, Royal Palace, Oslo, Norway
  Mother	HRH Princess Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria Windsor,   b. 26 Nov 1869, Marlborough House, London, Sandringham, England ,   d. 20 Nov 1938, Clinic, London, London, Middlesex, England
  Married	22 Jul 1896	Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace, St. James Park, London, England   [4, 5, 6, 15, 16, 17]
  Relationship	Maud and Christian are 1st cousins
  Family ID	F35	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	HRH Princess M%rtha Sophia Louisa Dagmar Thyra Bernadotte,   b. 28 Mar 1901, Palace of the Hereditary Prince, Stockholm, Sweden ,   d. 5 Apr 1954, Rikshospitalet (State Hospital), Oslo, Norway
  Married	21 Mar 1929	Vor Frelsers Kirke (= St. Saviour's Church), Oslo, Norway   [2, 6, 18, 19]
  	First royal wedding to be broadcast on the radio (Book of Kings, 190).
  Relationship	Martha and Olav are 1st cousins
  Children	1. HRH Princess Ragnhild Alexandra Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg   2. HRH Princess Astrid Maud Ingeborg Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg   3. King Harald Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2009
  Family ID	F501	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

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