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[td]==Personal life==[/td] [td]Amundsen was a lifelong bachelor, but he had a long-time relationship with the Norwegian-born Kristine Elisabeth ('Kiss') Bennett, the wife of an Englishman, [[Charles Peto Bennett]].<ref name="Thyvold2012">{{cite book|author=Hans Olav Thyvold|title=Roald Amundsen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrV7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|year=2012|publisher=Font Forlag AS|isbn=978-82-8169-179-7|page=46|access-date=30 November 2020|archive-date=2 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2023050...books?id=GrV7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|url-status=live}}</ref> He met her in London in 1907 and they remained close for many years; Amundsen kept the relationship a secret from everyone outside his intimate circle. Later, he became engaged to Bess Magids, an American divorcΓ©e whom he had met in Alaska.<ref name="Bomann-Larsen2011">{{cite book|author=Tor Bomann-Larsen|title=Roald Amundsen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0CI7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA358|year=2011|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-0-7524-6682-8|pages=189, 355β358|access-date=30 November 2020|archive-date=2 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2023050...ooks?id=0CI7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA358|url-status=live}}</ref> Though there is little evidence, it was said that Amundsen had a brief affair with his landlady in [[Antwerp]]βuntil he came home and found her dead after an apparent suicide.<ref>Sancton, p. 149 ''(footnote);'' Bomann-Larsen, p. 20.</ref> His biographer Tor Bomann-Larsen also suggests a romantic relationship between Amundsen and Sigrid Castberg, wife of the lawyer Leif Castberg from [[GjΓΈvik]], in the years before the South Pole expedition, a relationship Amundsen broke off after that expedition in favour of Kiss Bennett.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bomann-Larsen |first=Tor |title=Roald Amundsen |publisher=Sutton Publishing |year=2006 |isbn=0-7509-4343-2 |location=Phoenix Mill |pages=72β73, 117, 139 |language=en}}</ref>[/td]
[td]Amundsen was a lifelong bachelor, but he had a long-time relationship with the Norwegian-born Kristine Elisabeth ('Kiss') Bennett, the wife of an Englishman, [[Charles Peto Bennett]].<ref name="Thyvold2012">{{cite book|author=Hans Olav Thyvold|title=Roald Amundsen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrV7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|year=2012|publisher=Font Forlag AS|isbn=978-82-8169-179-7|page=46|access-date=30 November 2020|archive-date=2 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2023050...books?id=GrV7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|url-status=live}}</ref> He met her in London in 1907 and they remained close for many years; Amundsen kept the relationship a secret from everyone outside his intimate circle. Later, he became engaged to Bess Magids, an American divorcΓ©e whom he had met in Alaska.<ref name="Bomann-Larsen2011">{{cite book|author=Tor Bomann-Larsen|title=Roald Amundsen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0CI7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA358|year=2011|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-0-7524-6682-8|pages=189, 355β358|access-date=30 November 2020|archive-date=2 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2023050...ooks?id=0CI7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA358|url-status=live}}</ref> Though there is little evidence, it was said that Amundsen had a brief affair with his landlady in [[Antwerp]]βuntil he came home and found her dead after an apparent suicide.<ref>Sancton, p. 149 ''(footnote);'' Bomann-Larsen, p. 20.</ref> His biographer Tor Bomann-Larsen also suggests a romantic relationship between Amundsen and Sigrid Castberg, wife of the lawyer Leif Castberg from [[GjΓΈvik (town)|GjΓΈvik]], in the years before the South Pole expedition, a relationship Amundsen broke off after that expedition in favour of Kiss Bennett.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bomann-Larsen |first=Tor |title=Roald Amundsen |publisher=Sutton Publishing |year=2006 |isbn=0-7509-4343-2 |location=Phoenix Mill |pages=72β73, 117, 139 |language=en}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]Author Julian Sancton noted that in his younger years, Amundsen was said to have ignored romantic relationships in pursuit of his goals. He "found little use in activities that didn't help him fulfill his polar ambitions".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sancton |first1=Julian |title=Madhouse at the End of the Earth |date=2021 |publisher=Crown/Random House |isbn=978-1-9848-2433-2 |page=149}}</ref>[/td]
[td]Author Julian Sancton noted that in his younger years, Amundsen was said to have ignored romantic relationships in pursuit of his goals. He "found little use in activities that didn't help him fulfill his polar ambitions".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sancton |first1=Julian |title=Madhouse at the End of the Earth |date=2021 |publisher=Crown/Random House |isbn=978-1-9848-2433-2 |page=149}}</ref>[/td]
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[td]==Personal life==[/td] [td]Amundsen was a lifelong bachelor, but he had a long-time relationship with the Norwegian-born Kristine Elisabeth ('Kiss') Bennett, the wife of an Englishman, [[Charles Peto Bennett]].<ref name="Thyvold2012">{{cite book|author=Hans Olav Thyvold|title=Roald Amundsen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrV7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|year=2012|publisher=Font Forlag AS|isbn=978-82-8169-179-7|page=46|access-date=30 November 2020|archive-date=2 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2023050...books?id=GrV7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|url-status=live}}</ref> He met her in London in 1907 and they remained close for many years; Amundsen kept the relationship a secret from everyone outside his intimate circle. Later, he became engaged to Bess Magids, an American divorcΓ©e whom he had met in Alaska.<ref name="Bomann-Larsen2011">{{cite book|author=Tor Bomann-Larsen|title=Roald Amundsen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0CI7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA358|year=2011|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-0-7524-6682-8|pages=189, 355β358|access-date=30 November 2020|archive-date=2 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2023050...ooks?id=0CI7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA358|url-status=live}}</ref> Though there is little evidence, it was said that Amundsen had a brief affair with his landlady in [[Antwerp]]βuntil he came home and found her dead after an apparent suicide.<ref>Sancton, p. 149 ''(footnote);'' Bomann-Larsen, p. 20.</ref> His biographer Tor Bomann-Larsen also suggests a romantic relationship between Amundsen and Sigrid Castberg, wife of the lawyer Leif Castberg from [[GjΓΈvik]], in the years before the South Pole expedition, a relationship Amundsen broke off after that expedition in favour of Kiss Bennett.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bomann-Larsen |first=Tor |title=Roald Amundsen |publisher=Sutton Publishing |year=2006 |isbn=0-7509-4343-2 |location=Phoenix Mill |pages=72β73, 117, 139 |language=en}}</ref>[/td]
[td]Amundsen was a lifelong bachelor, but he had a long-time relationship with the Norwegian-born Kristine Elisabeth ('Kiss') Bennett, the wife of an Englishman, [[Charles Peto Bennett]].<ref name="Thyvold2012">{{cite book|author=Hans Olav Thyvold|title=Roald Amundsen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrV7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|year=2012|publisher=Font Forlag AS|isbn=978-82-8169-179-7|page=46|access-date=30 November 2020|archive-date=2 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2023050...books?id=GrV7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|url-status=live}}</ref> He met her in London in 1907 and they remained close for many years; Amundsen kept the relationship a secret from everyone outside his intimate circle. Later, he became engaged to Bess Magids, an American divorcΓ©e whom he had met in Alaska.<ref name="Bomann-Larsen2011">{{cite book|author=Tor Bomann-Larsen|title=Roald Amundsen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0CI7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA358|year=2011|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-0-7524-6682-8|pages=189, 355β358|access-date=30 November 2020|archive-date=2 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2023050...ooks?id=0CI7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA358|url-status=live}}</ref> Though there is little evidence, it was said that Amundsen had a brief affair with his landlady in [[Antwerp]]βuntil he came home and found her dead after an apparent suicide.<ref>Sancton, p. 149 ''(footnote);'' Bomann-Larsen, p. 20.</ref> His biographer Tor Bomann-Larsen also suggests a romantic relationship between Amundsen and Sigrid Castberg, wife of the lawyer Leif Castberg from [[GjΓΈvik (town)|GjΓΈvik]], in the years before the South Pole expedition, a relationship Amundsen broke off after that expedition in favour of Kiss Bennett.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bomann-Larsen |first=Tor |title=Roald Amundsen |publisher=Sutton Publishing |year=2006 |isbn=0-7509-4343-2 |location=Phoenix Mill |pages=72β73, 117, 139 |language=en}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]Author Julian Sancton noted that in his younger years, Amundsen was said to have ignored romantic relationships in pursuit of his goals. He "found little use in activities that didn't help him fulfill his polar ambitions".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sancton |first1=Julian |title=Madhouse at the End of the Earth |date=2021 |publisher=Crown/Random House |isbn=978-1-9848-2433-2 |page=149}}</ref>[/td]
[td]Author Julian Sancton noted that in his younger years, Amundsen was said to have ignored romantic relationships in pursuit of his goals. He "found little use in activities that didn't help him fulfill his polar ambitions".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sancton |first1=Julian |title=Madhouse at the End of the Earth |date=2021 |publisher=Crown/Random House |isbn=978-1-9848-2433-2 |page=149}}</ref>[/td]
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