{"id":15943,"date":"2026-08-24T15:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=15943"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:34:52","slug":"norways-king-harald-hospitalized-as-health-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/norways-king-harald-hospitalized-as-health-worsens\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway&#8217;s King Harald Hospitalized as Health Worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 89-year-old King has been receiving treatment at the National Hospital for over a week, where medical staff have administered antibiotics to combat the infection. The royal palace confirmed late Sunday that <strong>King Harald<\/strong> has responded positively to treatment and his condition has stabilised.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian sovereign had already been on sick leave for several weeks prior to his hospital admission. During his incapacitation, his son <strong>Crown Prince Haakon<\/strong> has assumed the role of regent, carrying out royal duties in his father&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<h2>Underlying Health Complications<\/h2>\n<p>Palace officials revealed last week that the king suffers from hemolytic anemia, a condition affecting red blood cells. Treatment with cortisone medication led to fluid accumulation in his body, necessitating hospitalisation and medical intervention.<\/p>\n<p>King Harald, who has reigned over Norway since 1991, has experienced multiple health setbacks requiring hospital care in recent years. The monarch&#8217;s advancing age and ongoing medical conditions have raised inevitable questions about the succession and the future of the Norwegian crown.<\/p>\n<p>The palace has indicated that Crown Prince Haakon will continue to serve as regent while his father remains under medical supervision and recovers from the bacterial infection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway&#8217;s 89-year-old King Harald is hospitalized with a bacterial blood infection and hemolytic anemia while Crown Prince Haakon serves as regent during his father&#8217;s treatment and recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":15942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[12238,12236,12235,12239,490,12237],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-15943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bacterial-infection","tag-crown-prince-haakon","tag-king-harald","tag-national-hospital","tag-norway","tag-royal-family","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15949,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943\/revisions\/15949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15943"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=15943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}