Princess Ragnhild, Mrs Lorentzen (Ragnhild Alexandra; 9 June 1930 – 16 September 2012), was the eldest child of King Olav V of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden. She was the older sister of King Harald V and Princess Astrid. She was the first royal to have been born in Norway since the Middle Ages. In 1953 she married the industrialist Erling Lorentzen, a member of the Lorentzen family of shipping magnates. In the same year they moved to Brazil, where her husband was an industrialist and a main owner of Aracruz Celulose. She lived in Brazil until her death 59 years later.
Titles, styles and honours
Titles
9 June 193015 May 1953: Her Royal Highness Princess Ragnhild of Norway
15 May 195316 September 2012: Her Highness Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen
Ancestry
She was a great-great granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and great granddaughter of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, thus a second cousin to Queen Elizabeth II. At the time of her birth she was 17th in the line of succession to the British throne, and 77th at the time of her death. Princess Ragnhild's maternal aunt was Queen Astrid of Belgium, which also made Princess Ragnhild a first cousin of kings Baudouin and Albert II of Belgium and of Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. Through her maternal grandmother, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, she was also a second cousin of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Queen Anne Marie of Greece as well as a second cousin once removed of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden through her maternal grandfather Prince Carl of Sweden.
References
Other websites
Official biography at kongehuset.no
Aftenposten article about her life (Norwegian)
1930 births
2012 deaths
Norwegian princesses
House of Glücksburg (Norway)