They lived in exile in, of all places, Bethesda, Md. The location was convenient to Washington and to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who, the show “Atlantic Crossing” makes abundantly clear, was smitten with the crown princess. She was 39 when she arrived.

At first, the Norwegian government leased the house at Pooks Hill. It purchased it outright in 1941 for $252,000. The house was built by Merle Thorpe, the founder and publisher of Nation’s Business magazine. In 1927, he bought 103 acres on Rockville Pike — or “the” Rockville Pike, as news stories referred to it then — and named it after a 1906 collection of stories, “Puck of Pook’s Hill,” by Rudyard Kipling, a Thorpe favorite.