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King Haakon Static display Bressingham Steam Museum: No. 377 was also one of the Numedalsbane locomotives at the end. It was also sold to England, painted apple green and given the name "King Haakon VII", apparently because it was - wrongly - believed that it was this locomotive that pulled the train with King Haakon out of Oslo on 9 April 1940.
Haakon VII (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈhôːkʊn]; 3 August 1872 – 21 September 1957) was King of Norway from 18 November 1905 until his death in 1957.. The future Haakon VII was born in Copenhagen as Prince Carl of Denmark.
The locomotive was restored at Bressingham and entered service in 1966. This locomotive has been a long serving and reliable performer on the Fen Railway. During the late 1990s, she was renamed Bill Harvey in honour of the former Norwich Shed Master. The locomotive was withdrawn from service in 2003 in need of a major overhaul.
The Royal Mausoleum contains two sarcophagi: in a white sarcophagus of marble rest King Haakon VII of Norway (1872–1957) and Queen Maud of Norway (1869–1938), née Princess Maud of Wales, [1] [2] and in a green sarcophagus rest King Olav V of Norway (1903–1991) and Crown Princess Märtha of Norway (1901–1954), née Princess of Sweden.
The Royal Yacht Norge was the Norwegian people's gift to King Haakon VII in 1947. The yacht is owned by the King but maintained and crewed by the Royal Norwegian Navy . Originally built in 1937 in the United Kingdom for Thomas Sopwith , she served in the Royal Navy as an armed yacht during the Second World War .
Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg. Peder Anker, Count of Wedel-Jarlsberg (born 18 August 1875, died 13 October 1954) was a Norwegian courtier, military officer and estate owner. He served as Lord Chamberlain for King Haakon VII of Norway from 1931 to 1945 and was one of the King's closest confidants for over thirty years.
HNoMS King Haakon VII, an escort ship in service from 1942 to 1951 HNoMS Haakon VII (A537) , a training ship in service from 1958 to 1974 List of ships with the same or similar names
The monogram. H7 was the royal cypher of the Norwegian head of state, King Haakon VII, who reigned from 1905 to 1957.When Germany invaded Norway in 1940 as a part of World War II, the royal family fled the country and Haakon VII later spearheaded the Norwegian resistance in exile in the United Kingdom.