Norway’s King Harald: The Olympic sailor who went from WWII exile to modernising monarchy
- Norway's King Harald V, who lived in exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his country and rejected a series of European noblewomen to marry his school sweetheart, has died at the age of 89.
- An announcement from the royal palace confirmed that he died at Oslo's National Hospital on Friday at 6.35am.
- Harald was the oldest monarch in Europe.
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- Norway's King Harald V, who lived in exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his country and rejected a series of European noblewomen to marry his school sweetheart, has died at the age of 89.
- An announcement from the royal palace confirmed that he died at Oslo's National Hospital on Friday at 6.35am.
- Harald was the oldest monarch in Europe.
Sources: The Independent