Maud of Wales | |||||
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Queen consort of Norway | |||||
Tenure | 18 November 1905 – 20 November 1938 | ||||
Coronation | 22 June 1906 | ||||
Born |
Marlborough House, London |
26 November 1869||||
Died | 20 November 1938 Appleton House, Sandringham |
(aged 68)||||
Burial | 8 December 1938 Akershus Castle, Oslo, Norway |
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Spouse | Haakon VII of Norway | ||||
Issue | Olav V of Norway | ||||
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House | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||||
Father | Edward VII of the United Kingdom | ||||
Mother | Alexandra of Denmark |
Full name | |
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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 in over five centuries 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 Alexandra, Princess of Wales. 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; King 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 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.