This is a statue of King Haakon VII of Norway. He was really a prince of Denmark; Prince Carl, but elected by the Norwegian people as their king, after the dissolution of the union with Sweden in 1905. He and his wife, Maud - princess of Great Britain and Ireland, came to Norway with their son Olav (at that time Alexander) on November 25th 1905.
King Haakon was very loved by the people, especially after World War II, as he refused to surrender to Germany.
Prince Olav became king after his father's death in 1957 and became just as popular as his father, if not even more.
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