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Haakon VII, born 3 Aug., 1872; second son of Frederik VIII, King of Denmark, elected King of Norway by the Storting, 18 Nov., 1905; accepted the crown, 18 Nov., 1905; landed in Norway, 25 Nov., 1905; married, 22 July, 1896, to Princess Maud, born 26 Nov., 1869 (died 20 Nov., 1938), the third daughter of the late Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1956). Norway. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270855_58
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