If it were his parents who opposed the match than that might be an indication that his legal father was also his biological father.
I do know they consulted with medical experts about their close blood ties and were re-assured. As they ended up with three healthy children who all lived beyond 80 the experts were right.
Well if Olav was the son of Queen Maud's British gynaecologist then he and Martha were second cousins rather than first cousins...
King D.Sebastião of Portugal had 4 great-grand-parents instead of the regular 8.
http://roglo.eu/roglo?lang=pt&m=A&i=600581&sosab=10&t=N&bd=0&color=&evt=on&v=4
It would have been strange for the King and Queen to oppose a marriage between their oldest son and Princes Märtha on the grounds of them beeing too closely related - when they had allowed their youngest son to wed his cousin Princess Caroline-Mathilde.
If the union simply involves first cousins, it shouldn't be an issue. But oftentimes, one has multiple generation first cousin marriages: that's when one has excessive inbreeding. The fact is that King Frederik IX of Denmark was a descendant of King Oscar I of Sweden, just like Princess Martha -- not to mention the fact that they had a closer relationship as children of a brother and sister.
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