King Olav making waves after his death

According to this article a football team in Norfolk, England, could lose their rights to play on their home ground, 21 years after the death of the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria.

I’m not sure if the clause mention King Olav specifically by name, or if that is an interpretation made. Because King Olav was not a grandson of Queen Victoria, but a great grandson. The longest surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria, was Princess Alice, the Countess of Athlone, who died in 1981.

Out of the great grandchildren, King Olav was not even the longest surviving one. Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg is the only one of Queen Victoria’s great grandchildren still alive.

What sounds plausible to me is that the clause intended the grandchild of King Edward VII, in which case it is indeed King Olav of Norway.

It is a curious case, isn’t it?

Haakon and Mette-Marit goes back to the future

Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit have started a competition for 14-16 year olds in Norway for their Humanitarian Foundation. The purpose of the competition is to get the younger and the older generations talking to each other; for a teenager to talk to the grandparent generation and to ask about a happening in their life that meant a lot to them.

Mette-Marit says to NTB: “We’ve had the idea concerning such a competition for a long time. We’ve met many fantastic young and older people in this country, but we’ve also seen the need for places where they can gather together, and an increased contact between the generations.”

Crown Prince Haakon says that he thinks it is a misconception that teenagers are only concerned with what happens to them, that they’re also concerned for others, and that the competition is a way to hear about the things that happened to their grandparents, or other older people, when they were young, and what advice they might have for the teenagers.

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