Editing Haakon VII (section)

===Marriage===
[[File:Marriage of Princess Maud.jpg|thumb|300px|Wedding of Princess Maud and Prince Carl at Buckingham Palace]]
On 28 October 1895, at the age of 23, Carl was engaged to his first cousin [[Princess Maud of Wales]]. Princess Maud was the youngest daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King [[Edward VII]] and [[Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom]]). The Princess of Wales was Carl's aunt, being the eldest daughter of King Christian IX and [[Louise of Hesse-Kassel|Queen Louise]]. The wedding was celebrated on 22 July 1896,<ref name="Queen">{{cite magazine|title=The Queen Receives|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,715773,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222143402/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,715773,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2008|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=18 June 1923|access-date=17 January 2009}}</ref> in the Private Chapel of [[Buckingham Palace]], and was attended by the bride's grandmother, the 77-year-old [[Queen Victoria]].

After the wedding, the couple settled in [[Copenhagen]], where Carl continued his career as a naval officer. They took up residence in the [[Bernstorff Mansion]], an 18th-century [[Rococo]] style [[townhouse]] owned by Carl's uncle King [[George I of Greece]], situated in [[Bredgade]] immediately adjacent to the Amalienborg Palace complex. Furthermore, the bride's father gave them Appleton House on the [[Sandringham Estate]] as a country residence for his daughter's frequent visits to England.<ref name=Appleton>{{cite web|url=http://www.kongehuset.no/artikkel.html?tid=77243|title=Appleton House|date=5 March 2011|website=kongehuset.no|publisher=[[Monarchy of Norway|The Royal House of Norway]]|access-date=11 April 2021|archive-date=25 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225191624/https://www.kongehuset.no/artikkel.html?tid=77243|url-status=live}}</ref> It was there that the couple's only child, [[Olav V of Norway|Prince Alexander]], the future Crown Prince Olav (and eventually King [[Olav V of Norway]]), was born on 2 July 1903.<ref name="Queen"/>