Europe\u2019s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, has been discharged from the Oslo hospital where he received a permanent pacemaker earlier this week, the palace said Thursday. The 87-year-old monarch \u201cis doing well\u201d and is on sick leave until April 8, the royal household said in a brief statement. His 50-year-old son, Crown Prince Haakon, is assuming the king\u2019s duties. The monarch underwent the pacemaker implant procedure at Oslo\u2019s University Hospital on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Last month, Harald fell ill during a private holiday with his wife Queen Sonja on the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi. He underwent surgery there and received a temporary pacemaker due to a low heart rate. Harald returned to Norway aboard a medical aeroplane and was immediately transferred to an Oslo hospital. The king\u2019s doctor, Bj\u00f8rn Bendz, said this week that he had contracted an undetermined infection in Malaysia.<\/p>\n
The monarch has been in frail health in recent years with numerous hospital stays. He had an operation to replace a heart valve in October 2020 after being hospitalised with breathing difficulties. Harald repeatedly has said he has no plans to abdicate, unlike his second cousin Queen Margarethe II of Denmark, who stepped down earlier this year. Harald\u2019s duties as Norway\u2019s head of state are ceremonial and he holds no political power. He ascended to the throne following the death of his father, King Olav, in 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Europe\u2019s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, has been discharged from the Oslo hospital where he received a permanent\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":34004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[11372,11371,11374,11375,10629,2949,11373,1167],"class_list":["post-34003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-crown-prince-haakon","tag-discharge","tag-duties","tag-head-of-state","tag-king-harald-v-of-norway","tag-norway","tag-oslo-university-hospital","tag-pacemaker"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}