King Harald V - an American connection

 

Prince Harald of Norway plays with FDR's beloved Scot

Soon after Crown Princess Märtha and her three children, Princess Ragnhild, Princess Astrid and Prince Harald, arrived in Washington,. D.C, as exiles from the Nazi invasion of Norway.    In 1945, they attended the President's fourth inauguration.

Franklin D Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park

Crown Princess Märtha and her children spent nearly five years in the United States before Norway's liberation. 

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