{"id":2298266,"date":"2026-02-24T21:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2298266"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:38:32","slug":"king-harald-of-norway-rushed-to-hospital-as-urgent-health-update-issue-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/king-harald-of-norway-rushed-to-hospital-as-urgent-health-update-issue-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"King Harald of Norway rushed to hospital as urgent health update issue | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Norwegian Royal Court has confirmed that King Harald, 89, has been rushed to hospital with dehydration and an infection. A spokesperson for the royals said the monarch was in a &#8220;good&#8221; condition in Tenerife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A statement issued by The Royal House of Norway said: &#8220;His Majesty the King (Harald V) was admitted this evening to Hospital Universitario Hospiten Sur in Tenerife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;The King is being treated for an infection and dehydration, and his condition is, under the circumstances, good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The royals confirmed that his personal physician will travel to Tenerife to assist the local health service, and said that an update would be provided once the physician has &#8220;assessed the situation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway had been enjoying a private stay on the Spanish island for a winter holiday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He has reigned since 1991, succeeding his equally popular father, King Olav V, who was voted the Norwegian of the century in 1999.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The monarch recently turned 89 and marked the occasion with a portrait of himself with his heir, Crown Prince Haakon, and his eldest child and second-in-line to the throne, Princess Ingrid Alexandra.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Despite King Harald&#8217;s popularity, the Norwegian royal family has been under intense scrutiny of late, following bombshell revelations in the latest release of the Epstein files.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The wife of the heir to the throne, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, featured hundreds of times in the files between 2011-2014, after Epstein had been convicted of soliciting prostitution with a minor. Involvement in the files does not indicate any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Emails suggested she had had a long friendship with the convicted paedophile and even stayed at his house in Palm Beach for four days in January 2013, when he was not present.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The princess released a statement saying: &#8220;I showed poor judgement and regret having any contact with Epstein at all. 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