Editing Haakon VII (section)

===Birth and family===
{{stack|[[File:Charlottenlund_Slot_(c_1895).jpg|thumb|Prince Carl's birthplace, [[Charlottenlund Palace]] north of [[Copenhagen]], {{circa}} 1895.]]}}
Prince Carl was born on 3 August 1872 at his parents' country residence, [[Charlottenlund Palace]] north of [[Copenhagen]], during the reign of his paternal grandfather, [[King Christian IX]].<ref name="DBL2">{{cite book|first=Povl|last=Engelstoft|chapter=Haakon VII|chapter-url=http://www.rosekamp.dk/DBL_All/DBL_8_text.pdf|editor1-first=Povl|editor1-last=Engelstoft|editor2-first=Svend|editor2-last=Dahl|title=[[Dansk Biografisk Leksikon]]|edition=2.|pages=241|volume=8|location=Copenhagen|publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlag|year=1935|language=da|access-date=21 April 2023|archive-date=8 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230808174012/https://www.rosekamp.dk/DBL_All/DBL_8_text.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> He was the second son of [[Frederick VIII of Denmark|Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark]] (the future King Frederick VIII), and his wife [[Louise of Sweden]].<ref name="Burke's Royal Families">{{cite book|editor1-last=Montgomery-Massingberd|editor1-first=Hugh|editor1-link=Hugh Massingberd|title=Burke's Royal Families of the World|volume=1|location=London, UK|publisher=[[Burke's Peerage]] Ltd|year=1977|page=71}}</ref> His father was the eldest son of [[King Christian IX]] and [[Louise of Hesse-Kassel]], and his mother was the only daughter of King [[Charles XV]] of Sweden (who was also king of Norway as Charles IV), and [[Louise of the Netherlands]].<ref name="NBL">{{cite encyclopedia|title=Haakon 7|encyclopedia=[[Norsk biografisk leksikon]]|last=Grimnes|first=Ole Kristian|author-link=Ole Kristian Grimnes|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=https://nbl.snl.no/Haakon_7|language=no|date=13 February 2009|access-date=19 May 2017|archive-date=5 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205023300/https://nbl.snl.no/Haakon_7|url-status=live}}</ref> At birth, he was third in the [[succession to the Danish throne]] after his father and older brother, but without any real prospect of inheriting the throne. The young prince was baptised at Charlottenlund Palace on 7 September 1872 by the [[Bishop of Zealand]], [[Hans Lassen Martensen]]. He was baptised with the names ''Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel'', and was known as Prince Carl (namesake of his maternal grandfather the King of Sweden-Norway, who died only 11 days after his baptism).<ref name="Burke's Royal Families"/>

Carl belonged to the [[Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg]] (often shortened to Glücksburg) branch of the [[House of Oldenburg]]. The House of Oldenburg had been the [[Danish royal family]] since 1448; between 1536 and 1814 it also ruled Norway, which was then part of the Kingdom of [[Denmark-Norway]]. The house was originally from northern Germany, where the Glücksburg (Lyksborg) branch held their small fief. The family had links with Norway beginning from the 15th century. Several of his paternal ancestors had been kings of Norway in union with Denmark and at times Sweden. They included [[Christian I]], [[Frederick I of Norway|Frederick I]], [[Christian III]], [[Frederick II of Denmark|Frederick II]], [[Christian IV]], and [[Frederick III of Norway|Frederick III]]. Frederick III integrated Norway into the Oldenburg state with Denmark, [[Schleswig]] and [[Holstein]]. His subsequent paternal ancestors had been dukes in [[Schleswig-Holstein]]. [[Christian Frederick]], who was King of Norway briefly in 1814, the first king of the Norwegian 1814 constitution and struggle for independence, was his great-granduncle.