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02-07-2022, 05:37 PM
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About six words this time, and there aren’t any subtitles. https://tv.nrk.no/se?v=FOLA04005969
One of my favorite royals talking about his mother Maud (in a program from 1969!), whom I also find quite fascinating. I wish I knew more of what he said!
The parts where he sees the stuff he drew as a kid are hilarious.
The only time his demeanor really changes is when he talks about being educated. I don’t suppose he mentioned his dyslexia?
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02-08-2022, 01:31 PM
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In more or less the same outfit, where he is conversing with his aunt’s cat. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/s...King-of-Norway
On a more serious note, for a spoiled and much loved only child, his childhood was rather melancholy. He not only struggled to read and write at all but even speak Norwegian properly, and was nervous and isolated (and arrogant, of course), and separated from his mom a lot. I don’t think the temperamental and lonely sides of him ever really went away. https://www.newsinenglish.no/2020/09...difficult-too/
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09-24-2022, 10:39 AM
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https://www.nrk.no/norge/xl/private-...ama-1.16112861
None of this is exactly surprising, except maybe for how Olav had to go outside Norway to find a priest who would marry Astrid and Mr. Ferner.
Surprisingly there is still nothing here that pinpoints whatever it was that finally let Ragnhild get married, or why the Ferners were allowed to stay in Norway.
We knew Olav was a very lonely guy, both as a kid and after Märtha. Not only did Tore Rem say so in the first volume, Olav himself said it. (7:12)
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11-16-2022, 06:19 PM
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King Olav V leaving London Airport after attending the wedding of Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy in 1963
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12-06-2022, 12:55 PM
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King Olav V 60 years old birthday 1963
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12-11-2022, 03:28 PM
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Coronation King Olav V (1958):
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01-20-2023, 05:58 PM
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King Olav V of Norway - work and residences:
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Apparently Churchill can be put in the column of people who did not unquestionably adore (then-Crown Prince) Olav; the King's latest biographer said there seems to be a letter he wrote to his wife at some point fatuously suggesting Hitler could be punished by locking him in a room with Olav for 12 hours a day.
https://www-boktips-no.translate.goo...n&_x_tr_pto=sc
However, this should be qualified:
- I'm pretty sure it was just Olav's nervous giggling that Churchill couldn't stand, and not Olav being ill-tempered or anything else that might actually put him on par with the nemesis of Europe.
- I'm also reasonably sure even Clementine Churchill, let alone anyone else, would not view being locked up with Winston for 12 hours as a privilege. So a few large grains of salt there.
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02-22-2023, 10:29 AM
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A compilation movie made in connection with the 70th birthday.
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02-22-2023, 12:24 PM
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Although I'm not opposed to Olav living for 18,000 years, I think there might need to be an adjustment in the thread title.
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02-23-2023, 08:38 PM
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Little prince on the job with his parents: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photo...ros-07453.html
Bigger, older little prince with his grandson and something that was older than Harald's bike, even at the time.
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