In 1910, Theodore wrote a letter to his friend King Haakon, in which he promised to help his son if ever needed. "Former President Theodore Roosevelt was a landmark for Franklin, and he was good friends with King Haakon and Queen Maud," explains historian Trond Norén Isaksen. In addition to mastering seven languages, Marta possessed the charisma and charm to attract contacts for President Roosevelt. In her encounters with Roosevelt, the crown princess told him different stories of the war than the ones the president heard from diplomats, politicians, and the military. He was proud of his efforts during the war. They had a particularly close relationship. Most of the time she was a single mother in the US, but her husband Olav came from London to visit her whenever he had the chance, two to three months a year.
Princess Marta liked to have company and nice people around her. Norwegian royalty became a second family to Roosevelt. The president helped them find a school for the children, as well as the house on Pook's Hill in Washington they moved to, and even a puppy. "Roosevelt was like a grandfather," his daughter Astrid recalled in an interview with NRK in 2001. , to settle in United States at the invitation of President Roosevelt.Ĭrown Prince Olav and King Haakon, instead, traveled with the Norwegian government to London.
In 1940, the German invasion of Norway forced the royal family into exile.Īfter a brief stay in Sweden, the Crown Princess, together with her sons Ragnhild, 10, Astrid, 8, and little Harald, 3, fled via Finland, crossing the Atlantic aboard the Six years earlier, Marta of Sweden married her first cousin Olav, with him who had three children.
MARTA ANIMAL CROSSING SERIAL
This serial fiction also opens the door to the reading of a possible romance between the politician and the princess, which has sparked debates among Norwegian historians.ĭaughter of Prince Charles of Sweden and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, her younger sister was Astrid, Queen Consort of Belgium, who died in a car accident in 1935. Roosevelt to have his country enter in contention. , due to its argument similar to the famous British fiction, not only attributes to the wife of Olav V a determining role in the decision of President Franklin D.
MARTA ANIMAL CROSSING SERIES
More than half a century after his death, the Norwegian public television NRK has dedicated a series to him this fall, the first about the Second World War in Norway that has a woman as the protagonist, which recreates his involuntary exile to the United States as a result of the German occupation of the Nordic country 80 years ago. The controversial Princess Marta Luisa of Norway is named after her paternal grandmother, much less known outside of Scandinavia, Crown Princess Marta, mother of King Harald, whose early death, at age 53 from cancer, would not let her convert.
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