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Queen Sonja of Norway

1937 - Today

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Sonja (born Sonja Haraldsen; 4 July 1937) is Queen of Norway as the wife of King Harald V.Sonja and the then Crown Prince Harald had dated for nine years prior to their marriage in 1968. They had kept their relationship a secret due to the controversy of Sonja's status as a commoner. Harald had told his father, King Olav V, that he would remain unmarried if his father did not grant consent to marry Sonja. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Queen Sonja of Norway has received more than 1,685,266 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Queen Sonja of Norway is the 65th most popular companion (down from 47th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Norway (up from 19th in 2019) and the most popular Norwegian Companion.

Queen Sonja of Norway is most famous for being the wife of King Harald V of Norway and the mother of Crown Prince Haakon.

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  • 1.7M

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  • 69.28

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Queen Sonja of Norway ranks 65 out of 673Before her are Antinous, Poppaea Sabina, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Sepp Dietrich, and Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France. After her are Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Blanche of Castile, Guinevere, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, Hafsa bint Umar, and Alexandra Feodorovna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Queen Sonja of Norway ranks 13Before her are Ridley Scott, Dustin Hoffman, Jane Fonda, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Renzo Piano, and Bobby Charlton. After her are Boris Spassky, Queen Paola of Belgium, Vanessa Redgrave, Martti Ahtisaari, Colin Powell, and Madeleine Albright.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Queen Sonja of Norway ranks 18 out of 927Before her are Erik the Red (950), Thor Heyerdahl (1914), Niels Henrik Abel (1802), Olaf II of Norway (993), Olaf Tryggvason (963), and Trygve Lie (1896). After her are Eric Bloodaxe (885), Vidkun Quisling (1887), Jens Stoltenberg (1959), Jo Nesbø (1960), Gro Harlem Brundtland (1939), and Ingólfr Arnarson (850).

Among COMPANIONS In Norway

Among companions born in Norway, Queen Sonja of Norway ranks 1After her are Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway (1973) and Gunnhildr Sveinsdóttir (1015).