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unusual facts about Queen of Norway


Ingeborg of Denmark

Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway (ca. 1244–1287), wife of Magnus VI of Norway and daughter of Eric IV of Denmark


Henry Knollys

In 1896 he was appointed Private Secretary and Comptroller in Britain to the Princess Maud of Wales on her marriage to Prince Charles of Denmark, and continued in that office when her Royal Highness became Queen of Norway upon her husband´s election as such in November 1905.

Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway

His godparents are his paternal grandmother, the Queen of Norway; the Queen of the Netherlands (then Princess Máxima); the Crown Prince of Greece; Princess Rosario of Bulgaria; his maternal uncle Espen Høiby; and his parents' friends, Bjørn Steinsland and Marianne Gjellestad.


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Aestrith of Sweden

Astrid Olofsdotter (died 1035), Princess of Sweden who became Queen of Norway in 1019

Sophia of Nassau

Another important event as Queen of Norway was the stay at Moss in 1877 with the former Crown Prince Napoleon of France.