{"id":153870,"date":"2026-08-27T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/153870\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:29:07","slug":"norways-king-harald-in-extremely-serious-condition-palace-says-health-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/153870\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway\u2019s King Harald in \u2018extremely serious\u2019 condition, palace says | Health News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europe\u2019s oldest reigning monarch has been in hospital in Oslo since August 17, suffering from a blood disease.<\/p>\n

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The health of Norway\u2019s 89-year-old King Harald, hospitalised with a blood disease, has deteriorated and he is in an \u201cextremely serious\u201d condition, the palace said.<\/p>\n

Queen Sonja and Crown Prince Haakon, who is acting as regent during his father\u2019s illness, have cancelled all royal engagements, the palace said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis Majesty the King\u2019s health condition is extremely serious,\u201d it said, providing no other details.<\/p>\n

Members of the king\u2019s family were at his bedside, Norwegian media reported, with the queen, Haakon and his wife Mette-Marit seen arriving at the hospital.<\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s oldest reigning monarch has been in hospital in Oslo since August 17, suffering from haemolytic anaemia, a condition caused by an abnormally rapid destruction of red blood cells which leads to fatigue and shortness of breath.<\/p>\n

The monarch was admitted to Oslo University Hospital due to fluid retention from the cortisone treatment he was receiving.<\/p>\n

Harald, who ascended the Norwegian throne in 1991, has had multiple health problems in recent years, forcing him to have a pacemaker fitted and to scale back his official schedule.<\/p>\n

But he has always ruled out abdicating, arguing that he took a lifelong oath before the Norwegian parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s oldest reigning monarch has been in hospital in Oslo since August 17, suffering from a blood disease.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[71,393,1193,38,157,156],"class_list":["post-153870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-europe","tag-health","tag-history","tag-news","tag-norway","tag-oslo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117167244376263758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153870","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=153870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}