{"id":83107,"date":"2026-05-15T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/83107\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:30:13","slug":"denmarks-queen-margrethe-has-angioplasty-in-hospital-royal-palace-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/83107\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark’s Queen Margrethe has angioplasty in hospital, royal palace says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Denmark’s Queen Margrethe has undergone an angioplasty procedure after being admitted to hospital this week for chest pain, the palace said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n

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The court said the queen had “a balloon dilation of a coronary artery” at Copenhagen’s main hospital Rigshospitalet, where she was admitted on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The queen, who has been a chain smoker for much of her life, was in “good condition” but would remain in hospital for “a few more days,” the palace said.<\/p>\n

Margrethe, who abdicated in 2024 and turned 86 on 16 April, attended Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf’s 80th birthday in early May.<\/p>\n

The former sovereign reigned in the Scandinavian country for 52 years before passing the throne to her eldest son Frederik in January 2024.<\/p>\n

Hugely popular among Danes for subtly modernising the monarchy, Margrethe has faced multiple health problems in recent years.<\/p>\n

She had long vowed that she would never abdicate, but major back surgery in 2023 led her to change her mind.<\/p>\n

Margrethe is known for her significant interest in the arts.<\/p>\n

As a designer she won a Danish film award for best costume in 2024 and translated Simone de Beauvoir’s “All Men Are Mortal” under a pseudonym with her late husband, Prince Consort Henrik.<\/p>\n

She has also illustrated several books, including JRR Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”<\/p>\n

Additional sources \u2022 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 15\/05\/2026 – 12:01 GMT+2 Denmark’s Queen Margrethe has undergone an angioplasty procedure after being admitted to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[108,27,26,14436,43935,3593],"class_list":["post-83107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-copenhagen","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-hospital","tag-queen","tag-royal-family"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116578132080843383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83107","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=83107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}