{"id":151461,"date":"2026-08-24T13:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/151461\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:49:10","slug":"king-of-norways-health-deteriorated-over-weekend-says-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/151461\/","title":{"rendered":"King of Norway\u2019s health deteriorated over weekend, says palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 89-year-old, who has been on sick leave for several weeks, was admitted to the National Hospital in Oslo a week ago where he was receiving antibiotics for a bacterial blood infection and had responded to treatment, the palace said late on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>The palace added that his condition was stable.<\/p>\n<p>His son, Crown Prince Haakon, has been serving as regent during this time, the palace said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8a16d11a8b864ec8a02d10cf0df0e113.jpg\" alt=\"Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon drives a car \" data-title=\"Norway Royals\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"Ole Berg-Rusten \/ NTB\" data-credit=\"Ole Berg-Rusten\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required. No Use in Norway\"  \/>Crown Prince Haakon has been serving as regent, the palace said (Ole Berg Rusten\/NTB Scanpix via AP)<\/p>\n<p>The king suffers from hemolytic anemia and was being treated with cortisone, leading to fluid accumulation in the body that required hospital treatment, the palace said last week.<\/p>\n<p>Norway\u2019s prime minister sent his wishes for the king and said that \u201call of Norway is following and thinking about the king\u201d, public broadcaster NRK reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy strong wish is that he continues to receive good treatment from the good healthcare system we have,\u201d Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said.<\/p>\n<p>Harald, who has been monarch since 1991, has been in and out of the hospital several times in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>In February, he was admitted to a hospital in Spain\u2019s Canary Islands during a winter holiday for treatment for a skin infection.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, the king fell ill during a private holiday with the queen in Malaysia and received a temporary pacemaker there.<\/p>\n<p>Harald returned aboard a medical airplane to Norway, where he was fitted with a permanent pacemaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 89-year-old, who has been on sick leave for several weeks, was admitted to the National Hospital in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[157,156],"class_list":["post-151461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-norway","tag-oslo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117150808148505762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151461","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=151461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}