Princess Maud

22nd July 1896

Marriage of Princess Maud of Wales & Prince Carl of Denmark

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Princess Maud was the youngest daughter and fifth child of King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, and Alexandra of Denmark.

She was born on 26th November 1869, at Marlborough House, the London residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Maud experienced a happy childhood on her parent's Sandringham estate in Norfolk, and spent annual holidays with the close knit family of her mother, Alexandra, Princess of Wales in Denmark.

She was a shy and reserved child who loved practical jokes.

Alexandra of Denmark was an indulgent mother who adored her children, although Maud's grandmother Queen Victoria, often disapproved of the behaviour of her Wales grandchildren whom she considered ill behaved.

Princess Maud married her first cousin, Prince Carl of Denmark, in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace on 22nd July 1896.

The couple were given Appleton House on the Sandringham Estate by her father Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, to serve as a country residence for their frequent visits to England.

The couple's only child, Prince Alexander of Denmark, (Alexander Edward Christian Frederick) was born there on 2nd July 1903.

In June of 1905 the Norwegian parliament dissolved Norway's union with neighbouring Sweden and offered the crown of Norway to Prince Carl, who accepted and became King Haakon VII.

The couple arrived in their new country on November 25th, 1905, King Haakon VII and Queen Maud were crowned in a ceremony at Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim on 22nd June 1906.

Maud continued to regard Britain as her real home and visited her family there every year.

She had an English garden planted at Kongsseteren, the Royal lodge overlooking the nation's capital of Oslo, to remind her of home.

She did, however, bring her son up as a Norwegian and enjoyed the Norwegian winter sports, learning to ski.

Queen Maud's last public appearance in Britain was when she attended the Westminster Abbey coronation of her nephew, King George VI and his wife Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, in May 1937.

Maud was still in England in October 1938, when she became ill and was admitted to a nursing home.

An abdominal operation was performed on 16th November 1938.

Although she survived the surgery, Maud died unexpectedly of heart failure at Appleton House on 20th November 1938, six days before her sixty-ninth birthday and on the thirteenth anniversary of her mother Queen Alexandra's 's death.

Her body was returned to Norway, Queen Maud was buried in the royal mausoleum at Akershus Castle in Oslo.

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Queen Maud 1906 (The Royal Court Photo Archive)