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Maud of Wales

Maud of Wales
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Maud following her coronation, wearing the Queen's Crown, and holding a sceptre and orb
Queen consort of Norway
Tenure 18 November 1905 – 20 November 1938
Coronation 22 June 1906
Born (1869-11-26)26 November 1869
Marlborough House, London
Died 20 November 1938(1938-11-20) (aged 68)
Appleton House, Sandringham
Burial 8 December 1938
Akershus Castle, Oslo, Norway
Spouse Haakon VII of Norway
Issue Olav V of Norway
Full name
Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria
House Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Father Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Mother Alexandra of Denmark
Full name
Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria

Maud of Wales, GCVO, GCStJ, VA, CI (Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria; 26 November 1869 – 20 November 1938) was Queen of Norway as spouse of King Haakon VII. She was the youngest daughter of the British king Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark. Maud of Wales was the first queen of Norway since 1380 who was not also queen of Denmark or Sweden.

Maud was born on 26 November 1869 at Marlborough House, London. She was the third daughter and fifth child of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Queen Victoria, and Princess Alexandra of Denmark. She was christened "Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria" at Marlborough House by John Jackson, Bishop of London, on 24 December 1869. Her godparents were her paternal uncle Prince Leopold, for whom the Duke of Cambridge stood proxy; Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel, for whom Prince Francis of Teck stood proxy; Count Gleichen; the Duchess of Nassau, for whom Princess Francis of Teck stood proxy; Charles XV of Sweden, for whom Baron Hochschild, the Swedish minister, stood proxy; Princess Marie of Leiningen, for whom Princess Claudine of Teck stood proxy; her maternal aunt the The Tsarevna of Russia for whom Baroness de Brunnow stood proxy; Crown Princess Louise of Denmark, for whom Madame de Bülow, the Danish Minister's wife, stood proxy; and her great-grand aunt the Duchess of Inverness.


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