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Harald V (Norwegian: Harald den femte, Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈhɑ̂rːɑɫ dɛn ˈfɛ̂mtə]; [2] born 21 February 1937) is King of Norway.. A member of the House of Glücksburg, Harald was the third child and only son of King Olav V of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden.
— later Crown Prince and King Olav V of Norway (1957–1991) father of King Harald V of Norway. Prince Alexander John of Wales: 6 April 1871 Sandringham House, Norfolk: 7 April 1871 Sandringham House, Norfolk: Born prematurely at 2:45 p.m., and died 24 hours later. He was christened privately by Reverend W. Lake Onslow in the evening after ...
King Harald V and Queen Sonja reign in Norway. Their heir is Crown Prince Haakon, who with wife Princess Mette-Marit has two children: Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus.
Harold was a son of Godwin (c. 1001 –1053), the powerful Earl of Wessex, and of Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, whose brother Ulf the Earl was married to Estrid Svendsdatter (c. 1015/1016), the daughter of King Sweyn Forkbeard [2] (died 1014) and sister of King Cnut the Great of England and Denmark.
Like the queen, his great-grandfather was England's King Edward VII, making the monarchs second cousins. Harald V's grandmother, Maud, was the youngest daughter of Edward VII and became Queen of ...
1940. After the Nazi occupation of Norway, Princess Märtha and the three children, Princess Ragnhild, Princess Astrid, and Prince Harald went to the U.S., while Prince Olav stayed in London.
King of the Belgians [ad] Harald V King of Norway: Elizabeth II Queen of the United Kingdom: Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark: Michael I King of Romania [ae] Constantine II King of the Hellenes [z] Sofía Queen of Spain: Frederik X King of Denmark: Henri Grand Duke of Luxembourg: Philippe King of the Belgians: Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway ...
The succession is currently governed by Article 6 of the Constitution, altered most recently in 1990 to introduce absolute primogeniture among the grandchildren and further eligible descendants of King Harald V. The King's children are ranked according to male-preference cognatic primogeniture, which was given between 1971 and 1990; Crown ...