Maud of Wales
Maud of Wales | |||||
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Akershus Castle, Oslo , Norway | |||||
Spouse |
Haakon VII of Norway (m. 1896) | ||||
Olav V of Norway | |||||
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House | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||||
Father | Edward VII | ||||
Mother | Alexandra of Denmark | ||||
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Maud of Wales
Early life and education
Maud was born on 26 November 1869 at
The tomboyish Maud was known as "Harry" to the royal family, after Edward VII's friend Admiral Henry Keppel, whose conduct in the Crimean War was considered particularly courageous at the time.[1][2] Maud took part in almost all the annual visits to the Princess of Wales's family gatherings in Denmark and later accompanied her mother and sisters on cruises to Norway and the Mediterranean. She was a bridesmaid at the 1885 wedding of her paternal aunt Beatrice to Prince Henry of Battenberg,[3] and at the wedding of her brother George to Mary of Teck in 1893.[4]
Maud, along with her sisters,
Princess of Denmark
Maud married relatively late, waiting until her late twenties to find a husband.[1] She had initially wanted to marry a distant cousin, Prince Francis of Teck, younger brother of her sister-in-law Mary. Despite being relatively impoverished from mounting gambling debts and being in a position to possibly benefit from Maud's status, he ignored her advances.[2]
On 22 July 1896, Princess Maud married her first cousin,
Prince Carl served as an officer in the Royal Danish Navy, and he and his family lived mainly in Denmark until 1905. In June 1905 the Norwegian Storting dissolved Norway's 91-year-old union with Sweden and voted to offer the throne to Prince Carl of Denmark. Maud's membership in the British royal house played some part in why Carl was chosen. Following a plebiscite in November, Prince Carl accepted the Norwegian throne as King Haakon VII, while his young son was renamed Olav. King Haakon VII and Queen Maud were crowned at Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim on 22 June 1906; there has not been a coronation in Scandinavia since.
Queen of Norway
Queen Maud never lost her love of Britain, but she quickly adapted to her new country and duties as a queen consort. A court was formed, and Marie Magdalena Rustad was appointed her principal lady-in-waiting. Maud played a strong and dominant role within the court and family, but a discreet role in public.[6]
Maud continued to regard Great Britain as her true home even after her arrival in Norway, and visited Great Britain every year.
Queen Maud's last public appearance in Britain was at the
Maud also acquired a reputation for dressing with fashionable chic. An exhibition of numerous items from her elegant wardrobe was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2005 and published in the catalogue Style and Splendour: Queen Maud of Norway's Wardrobe 1896–1938.
Death and legacy
Maud visited England in October 1938. Initially, she stayed at Sandringham, but then moved into a hotel in London's West End. She became ill and was taken to a nursing home at 18 Bentinck Street,
Her body was returned to Norway on board
Titles, styles, and arms
Titles and styles
- 26 November 1869 – 22 July 1896: Her Royal Highness Princess Maud of Wales
- 22 July 1896 – 18 November 1905: Her Royal Highness Princess Charles of Denmark[17][18][19]
- 18 November 1905 – 20 November 1938: Her Majesty The Queen of Norway
Arms
Upon her marriage, Maud was granted the use of a personal coat of arms, being those of the kingdom, with an inescutcheon of the shield of Saxony, differenced with a label argent of five points, the outer pair and centre bearing hearts gules, the inner pair crosses gules.[20] The inescutcheon was dropped by royal warrant in 1917.
Maud's coat of arms (granted 1896) until 1917 | Royal monogram as Queen of Norway |
Ancestry
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Citations
- ^ a b Hibbert, p. 182
- ^ a b King, p. 144
- ^ "Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg with their bridesmaids and others on their wedding day". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ^ "The Duke and Duchess of York and Bridesmaids". National Portrait Gallery, London.
- ^ a b "Appleton House". The Norwegian Royal Household. 5 March 2011.
- ^ a b c d Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria – utdypning
- ^ "The Queen Sonja Art Stable". kongehuset.no (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Statue of Queen Maud unveiled by HM King Harald". Norway. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ^ "The Queen Mother in pictures". The Telegraph. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ^ "Queen Maud Undergoes Operation". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane. 17 November 1938. p. 7. Retrieved 25 December 2011 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Death of Queen". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane. 21 November 1938. p. 1. Retrieved 25 December 2011 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Death of Queen Maud". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 November 1938. p. 11. Retrieved 25 December 2011 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b Sandelson, Michael (28 October 2011). "Norway's Queen Maud in euthanasia speculations". The Foreigner. Retrieved 20 March 2017.(subscription required)
- ^ Dahlmann, L. A. "The secret journey of Queen Maud's coffin | norwegianhistory.no". Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
- ^ Evans, Rob; Pegg, David (18 July 2022). "£187m of Windsor family wealth hidden in secret royal wills". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ "Norwegian Navy train at Raleigh". royalnavy.mod.uk. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
- ^ "Supplement to the London Gazette" (PDF). The London Gazette. 22 May 1902.
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald". 27 July 1896.
- ^ "Princess Charles has a son". The Times. 3 July 1903.
Princess Charles of Denmark, daughter of King Edward, gave birth to a son to-day at Appleton cottage
- ^ Heraldica – British Royal Cadency
References
- Bomann-Larsen, Tor (2004). Haakon og Maud I/Kongstanken (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. ISBN 82-02-22527-2.
- Bomann-Larsen, Tor (2004). Haakon og Maud II/Folket (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. ISBN 978-82-02-22529-2.
- Bomann-Larsen, Tor (2006). Haakon og Maud III/Vintertronen (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. ISBN 978-82-02-24665-5.
- Bramsen, Bo (1992). Huset Glücksborg. Europas svigerfader og hans efterslægt [The House of Glücksburg. The Father-in-law of Europe and his descendants] (in Danish) (2nd ed.). Copenhagen: Forlaget Forum. ISBN 87-553-1843-6.
- Hibbert, Christopher (2007). Edward VII: The Last Victorian King. London, UL: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-8377-0.
- King, Greg (2007). Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During her Diamond Jubilee. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0-470-04439-1.
- Lerche, Anna; Mandal, Marcus (2003). A royal family : the story of Christian IX and his European descendants. Copenhagen: Aschehoug. ISBN 9788715109577.
External links
- Website of the Royal House of Norway: Queen Maud
- "Style & Splendor – Who was Queen Maud of Norway?". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 4 June 2007.
- Newspaper clippings about Maud of Wales in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
- Portraits of Maud, Queen of Norway at the National Portrait Gallery, London