{"id":160678,"date":"2026-09-06T19:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/160678\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T19:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:06:07","slug":"queen-margrethe-hospitalised-days-before-king-haralds-funeral-in-oslo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/160678\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Margrethe hospitalised days before King Harald&#8217;s funeral in Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/680918_912401_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Margrethe hospitalised days before King Haralds funeral in Oslo\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Queen Margrethe has been admitted to hospital after feeling unwell, with doctors treating a new blood clot in her hip region and mild dehydration.<\/p>\n<p>The 86-year-old former Danish monarch was admitted to Rigshospitalet on Sunday, September 6, where she is expected to remain for the coming week for observation and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The Danish Royal House said the Queen is \u201cin good spirits\u201d and, considering the circumstances, is doing well.<\/p>\n<p>Her hospitalisation means Margrethe will no longer be able to attend the funeral of her close relative and friend, King Harald V of Norway, in Oslo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>King Harald, who died aged 89 on August 28 after 35 years on the Norwegian throne, will be laid to rest following a funeral service at Oslo Cathedral on September 9.<\/p>\n<p>Margrethe and Harald were second cousins, sharing King Frederik VIII of Denmark as a great-grandfather, and the pair were also known to have maintained a close personal friendship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was admitted to Rigshospitalet in May after experiencing heart-related symptoms and underwent balloon angioplasty on a coronary artery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later that month, she was treated for a blood collection in the hip area following an earlier fall and was discharged on May 29, with doctors advising her to take things easy while she recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Margrethe has been admitted to hospital after feeling unwell, with doctors treating a new blood clot in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[157,156],"class_list":["post-160678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-norway","tag-oslo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117225664658407598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160678","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=160678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}