{"id":151239,"date":"2026-08-24T07:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/151239\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T07:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:52:06","slug":"king-harald-v-worsens-but-remains-stable-in-oslo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/151239\/","title":{"rendered":"King Harald V worsens but remains stable in Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal House of Norway has reported that the health status of King Harald V, 89 years old, has recorded a &#8220;deterioration&#8221; over the weekend, although it emphasized in a brief note that the monarch remains hospitalized in &#8220;stable&#8221; condition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The state of His Majesty the King has worsened over the weekend,&#8221; the institution indicated, before specifying that Harald V &#8220;is receiving antibiotics for a bacterial infection in the bloodstream and has responded to the treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the statement underscores that &#8220;the situation is stable&#8221; and emphasizes that the head of the Norwegian State &#8220;will remain at the Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, and is still on sick leave until further notice,&#8221; so his official agenda remains suspended.<\/p>\n<p>The monarch, who has occupied the throne since 1991, was transferred to the hospital on August 17 due to fluid retention detected after a medical examination related to the treatment he has been receiving for weeks for hemolytic anemia, as detailed by the Royal House itself at that time.<\/p>\n<p>During this new convalescence, Crown Prince Haakon is performing the functions of regent, as occurred between late February and early March, when the king had to be hospitalized for a skin infection in a leg that led to his hospitalization at the University Hospital of Santa Cruz de Tenerife while enjoying a vacation with his wife, Sonia of Norway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal House of Norway has reported that the health status of King Harald V, 89 years old,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[157,156],"class_list":["post-151239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-norway","tag-oslo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117149404101081758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}