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 | | King Harald V, Norway's first native-born monarch in more than six centuries, opened a session of parliament in Oslo Wednesday with the traditional speech from the throne, a government-written statement of goals and programs for the coming year. |
 | | Harald, 54, became the third king of modern Norway upon the death of his father, King Olav V, a British-born Dane, on Jan 17. |
 | | Harald's grandfather, the Danish Prince Carl, was elected to the throne, took the name Haakon VII and named his son Olav V. Harald's birth on Feb. 21, 1937, near Oslo was the first time in more than five centuries that a Norwegian prince was born in Norway. |
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