biography
pronunciation:
[hawkon]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1872–1957)
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| biography:
| King of Norway (1905–57), born in Charlottenlund, E Denmark. He became king when Norway voted herself independent of Sweden in 1905, dispensed with regal pomp, and emerged as the ‘people's king’. During World War 2, he remained active in Norwegian resistance to Nazi occupation from England. |
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