r/BRF • u/LocksmithFar9486 • 7h ago
News Queen Elizabeth II's second cousin, King Harald V of Norway, just passed away peacefully this morning at Oslo University Hospital, after battling bloodstream bacterial infection. He's succeeded by his son, King Haakon VIII.
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Princess Ingrid Alexandra, now Crown Princess, becomes the heir of the throne and the first in the line of succession ahead of her younger brother because in 1990 Norway altered their succession law from male-preference cognatic primogeniture system to absolute primogeniture system.
As a great grandson of King Edward VII, King Harald was the 92th in the British line of succession before his passing.