Princess Märtha Louise and Ari Behn to divorce
Last Friday (5 August 2016) the Royal Court in Oslo announced that Princess Märtha Louise and Ari Behn, who have been married since 2002, are to divorce. The couple is going to have shared (joint)...
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Royalty Digest Quarterly no. 2, 2016
I received my copy of Royalty Digest Quarterly no. 2, 2016 at the end of June, but had so many other matters that had to be attended to before my vacation that I have not been able to comment on the...
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Eurohistory. The European Royal History Journal, Vol. 19.1, Spring 2016
Eurohistory. The European Royal History Journal, issue CIX, Volume 19.1, Spring 2016, arrived in early July, but as with the latest issue of RDQ, I have not been able to comment on it before now. The...
View ArticleRomanian Royal Family Links
The task of transferring the old pages from my old Geocities.com website to Hoelseth.com has obviously taken longer than I had expected. The main reason is, as I have also commented on earlier, that...
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Grave of Michael Schmidt and family, Our Saviour's Cemetery, Oslo, Norway...
© 2016 Dag Trygsland Hoelseth Last Sunday I visited Our Saviour's Cemetery (Vår Frelsers gravlund) in Oslo in order to take photos for Slektshistoriewiki, the Norwegian Genealogy wiki, and for other...
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Gunnila Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg (1923–2016): The fourth child
The Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden announced yesterday that Gunnila Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg, the second wife of Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (1916–2012), an uncle of King Carl XVI...
View ArticleDate set for the funeral service for Gunnila Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg
The Swedish newspaper Expressen wrote late yesterday evening that the funeral service for Gunnila Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg, who died on Monday 12 September 2016, 93 years old, is to take place...
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Stang family grave, Os cemetery, Halden, Norway (Tombstone Tuesday)
© 2015 Dag Trygsland HoelsethLauritz Leganger Stang (1858–1908) was a manager at Saugbrugsforeningen (a pulp and paper mill in Fredrikshald (Halden) for many years and was also a so-called suppleant...
View ArticleCrown Prince Haakon of Norway handed over the Protection of the Law Prize to...
Norges Juristforbund, the Norwegian Association of Lawyers, celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016. It is also 10 years since the association's Protection of the Law Prize (Rettssikkerhetsprisen) was...
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Astrup family grave, Haslum Cemetery, Bærum, Norway (Tombstone Tuesday)
© 2009 Dag Trygsland HoelsethThe grave of the shipowner family of Astrup at Haslum kirkegård (cemetery) in Bærum outside Oslo. The interred are Nils Astrup (1901–1972), his wife Hedevig «Heddy» Astrup,...
View ArticleFuneral service for Gunnila Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg
The funeral service for Gunnila Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg, who died on 12 September 2016, 93 years old, took place at the Palace Church in Stockholm today. As previously told it was a private...
View ArticleHaakon Haraldsen (1921–2016)
Queen Sonja of Norway's brother Haakon Haraldsen died on 4 October 2016, 95 years old, cf. among others the NTB article published on Aftenposten.no 13 October 2016 and the death announcement in...
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Werring grave, Haslum Cemetery, Bærum, Norway (Tombstone Tuesday)
© 2009 Dag Trygsland HoelsethGrave of Else Werring. née Wilhelmsen (1905–1989), who was Mistress of the robes (overhoffmesterinne) at the Norwegian Royal Court from 1958 to 1985, and her husband,...
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Royalty Digest Quarterly no. 3, 2016
In his Editor's Corner in the latest issue of Royalty Digest Quarterly (no. 3, 2016), Ted Rosvall comments on the increasing number of divorces within the European Royal Families. The lastest out is...
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A brazier's grave, Our Saviour's Cemetery, Oslo, Norway (Tombstone Tuesday)
© 2016 Dag Trygsland Hoelseth I came over the grave of brazier (gjørtler) Carl Peter Larsen (1827–1925) during my visit to Our Saviour's Cemetery (Vår Frelsers gravlund) today. The grave plate also...
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Eurohistory. The European Royal History Journal, Vol. 19.2, Summer 2016
The front cover of Eurohistory. The European Royal History Journal, Issue CX, Volume 19.2, Summer 2016, has the portrait of Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, who died on 12 May 2016, 91 years old. The...
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Genealogen no. 2, 2016
The latest issue of Genealogen, the newsletter of Norsk Slektshistorisk Forening (The Norwegian Genealogical Society), arrived in my mailbox today. On the front cover there is a photo of Steinvikholm...
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Longest reigns page updated
It was on time to update my Longest reigns (current monarchs) page tonight. Following the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) on 13 October 2016, I had planned to wait for the formal...
View ArticleNorskættede ishockeyspillere i NHL (ice hockey players of Norwegian descent...
Nettavisen skriver i en artikkel publisert 4. november 2016 om ishockeyspilleren Brady Skjei, f. 1994, som spiller i New York Ranger og som står overfor et gjennombrudd i den amerikanske hockeyligaen...
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Grave of Odd Nansen, Haslum Cemetery, Bærum, Norway (Tombstone Tuesday)
© 2009 Dag Trygsland Hoelseth The architect, author and humanitarian Odd Nansen (1901–1973) was the second son and fourth child (out of five children) of scientist, explorer, diplomat and author...
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