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I could not find that particular site in question, but I found another site that indicated that there was a first marriage. See # 9
I went to google.com and put in "martha suren" av norge and found the following:
9 [1] Kong Olav V av NORGE Born: 2-Jul-1903 in Appleton House, Sandringham Died: 17-Jan-1991 in Kongsseteren, Oslo
......................... +Märtha SUREN Married: 1920 Died: 1986
...................... *2nd Wife of [1] Kong Olav V av NORGE:
......................... +Prinzessin Märtha av SVERIGE Born: 28-Mar-1901 in Stockholm Married: 21-Mar-1929 in Vor Frelsers Church, Oslo Died: Apr-1954 in Oslo, Norway
from the link:
Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Outline Descendant Tree ...- [ Translate this page ]9 [1] Kong Olav V av NORGE Born: 2-Jul-1903 in Appleton House, Sandringham Died: 17-Jan-1991 in Kongsseteren, Oslo ......................... +Märtha SUREN ...
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Given that Olav was 17 in 1920, the age of majority then was 21 and could not contract a marriage without his father, the King's, consent according to the constitution and still keep his right to the Norwegian throne, I'm not inclined to think there was a marriage going on at any rate. A marriage is one of the things that sound very unlikely to me given the age of Olav, as well as his education, at the time.
In 1920 he had not yet graduated from the Norwegian equivalent of high school. He graduated in 1921.
It is also a tad strange that the only two - open - places on the web I can find a reference to this is the website above, and in a
QA session at Dagbladet where someone sent in the following question to the (Swiss/Italian) chef at a restaurant. In the question, it is referred to as a relationship and not a marriage, but still talked about it starting in 1920.
It's a bit of the danger with some genealogy websites on royals, that no sources are cited, or that not all sources might be correct.
http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/g...yal?royal00454 does for example list Märtha Louise as married to one of her ex-boyfriends, and not Ari Behn.
