even i one time that Charles should renounce his Danish citizenship and become a British subject, but "The Grandfather of Europe," King Christian of Denmark, refused to listen to the plain.
Instead the old king interested himself actively in his grandson's wife, and when a son was born to Maud and Charles, and her father ascended the British throne, the balance of court favour swung to her side. Opposition was completely defeated when summoned Charles to its independent throne.
Queen Maud's son. born July 2, 1903, was her only child. The boy was christened P. e Alexander, but when his parents went to Norway and his father revived the kingly name of Haakon, a royal decree changed the son's name to Olaf. The boy was trained as crown prince of Norway and on March 21, 1929, married Princess Martha of Sweden.
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