Ingvald Mareno Smith-Kielland (20 September 1919 - 9 May 2012) was a Norwegian royal servant.
He was born in 1919. His father Ingvald Smith-Kielland served as chamberlain and court marshal from 1949 to 1955 and lord chamberlain from 1955 to 1966, under the kings Haakon VII and Olav V (from 1957).[1] He was also the nephew of painter Per Smith-Kielland.[2]
Ingvald M. Smith-Kielland was first hired in the Royal Court in 1963, as an aide-de-camp. He became court marshal in 1966, and was promoted to lord chamberlain in 1985.[3] He succeeded Odd Grønvold in both positions.[4] When King Olav V died in early 1991, Smith-Kielland saw the opportunity to retire and was succeeded by Kaare Langlete.[5] In the beginning of the year, the entire court of the Norwegian royal family comprised as little as nine people: Smith-Kielland, Langlete, Gunerius Flakstad, Ingegjerd Løvenskiold, Magne Hagen and Barbara Iliff.[6]
In June 1991 Smith-Kielland was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.[7] In 1994, Verdens Gang noted that only seven non-royal Norwegians - all men - held the Grand Cross: Ingvald M. Smith-Kielland, Folke Hauger Johannessen, Herman Fredrik Zeiner-Gundersen, Rolv Ryssdal, Thor Heyerdahl, Per Aabel and Helge Ingstad.[8] Smith-Kielland's father, who died in 1984, also received the Grand Cross.[1] Ingvald M. Smith-Kielland died in May 2012.[9]