Maud of Wales
1869 – 1938 · Generation XXXV · Queen consort of Norway · House of Windsor
Maud of Wales (1869–1938). Queen consort of Norway. Married Haakon VII of Norway in 1896. The youngest daughter of the future Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, she was a tomboy known in the family as “Harry.” In 1896 she married her first cousin Prince Carl of Denmark in the chapel at Buckingham Palace, and their only child, Alexander, was born in 1903 at Appleton House on the Sandringham estate. When Norway ended its union with Sweden in 1905, the throne was offered to Carl — partly, it seems, because his wife was a British princess — and he reigned as Haakon VII, their son renamed Olav. Crowned at Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim in 1906, she took up skiing, supported causes for children and animals, and backed a home for unwed mothers regarded as radical, yet returned to England every year. She died in London in 1938, days after surgery revealed advanced cancer; Queen Maud Land in Antarctica bears her name.
Place in the family
- Maud of Wales was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
- Maud of Wales was the youngest of 5 children of King Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark recorded in this archive.
One of 53 people of House of Windsor (from 1917) in this archive. The present house — it renamed itself Windsor in 1917, setting aside the German title Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Line of descent: Owen Tudor → Edmund Tudor → King Henry VII → Margaret Tudor → King James V of Scotland → Mary Queen of Scots → King James I → Elizabeth Stuart → Sophia of Hanover → King George I → King George II → Frederick Prince of Wales → King George III → Edward Duke of Kent → Queen Victoria → King Edward VII → Maud of Wales.
Parents
- King Edward VII (1841 – 1910)
- Alexandra of Denmark (1844 – 1925)
Siblings
- Albert Victor Duke of Clarence (1864 – 1892)
- King George V (1865 – 1936)
- Louise Princess Royal (1867 – 1931)
- Victoria of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1935)
Partners
- Married Haakon VII of Norway (1872 – 1957) in 1896
Life
- 1869 — Born
- 1896 — Married Haakon VII of Norway
- 1938 — Died