Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen

HM King Harald V * HM Queen Sonja *

  • HRH Crown Prince Haakon * HRH Crown Princess Mette- Marit * HRH Princess Ingrid Alexandra *
  • Prince Sverre Magnus SH

IH Princess Astrid

* Members of the Royal Family

Princess Ragnhild Alexandra of Norway ( born June 9, 1930 in Oslo, † 16 September 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was the eldest daughter of King Olav V and Märtha of Sweden and belonged to the House of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- at Glücksburg, a branch line of the House of Oldenburg.

Life

Princess Ragnhild was born on June 9, 1930 at the Royal Palace in Oslo. Your baptismal name was Ragnhild Alexandra. She was the first child of Olav V of Norway and his wife Märtha of Sweden and the sister of the current Norwegian King Harald V.

The princess grew up on the estate Skaugum. After the German invasion of Norway in 1940, the royal family fled to Sweden from Oslo first, and later in the United States. There the princess lived with her mother and siblings in Washington DC until 1945. Thereafter, the family moved back to Skaugum.

On May 15, 1953, she married the Civil Erling Sven Lorentzen ( born January 28, 1923) in the church of Asker. Since the wedding, she wore the title of Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen (Norwegian: prinsesse Ragnhild, fru Lorentzen ).

Since her marriage she lived with her family in Rio de Janeiro. Her husband is a businessman. He owned shares of Aracruz pulp mill.

With her ​​husband she was the mother of three children:

  • Haakon Lorentzen ( born August 23, 1954) is married since 1982 with Martha Carvalho de Freitas ( born April 5, 1958). They live in Brazil and have three children together: Olav Alexander Lorentzen (born 11 July 1985)
  • Christian Frederik Lorentzen (born 23 May 1988)
  • Sophia Anne Lorentzen (born 28 June 1994)
  • Victoria Ragna Lorentzen Ribeiro (born 19 December 1988)
  • Alexandra Lorentzen Long (born 14 December 2007).
  • Elizabeth Lorentzen Long ( * March 2011)

Princess Ragnhild died on 16 September 2012 in her home in Rio de Janeiro.

Others

A piece of the coast of Antarctica ( Queen Maud Land ) is named after the Princess ( Princess Ragnhild Coast ).

Ragnhild was as if born before 1971 woman, never part of the Norwegian throne. However, she stood as a great-granddaughter of Edward VII in the UK ( last ranked 77). Your children are excluded from the succession, since they are married to Catholics. However, their grandson Olav Alexander, Christian Frederik, Sophia Anne and Victoria Ragna stand on the seats 80 to 83 (as of August 2013).

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