WORLD : Norway’s King Olav in Hospital
Norway’s King Olav V, at 87 Europe’s oldest reigning monarch, has been hospitalized in Oslo with inflammation of the heart but is likely to leave in a few days, spokesmen said today.
“The king is in no danger,” his secretary, Magne Hagen, said. “He will probably be out in a few days.”
King Olav was hospitalized Tuesday night for observation of a slight inflammation of the lining around the heart.
He has had a string of official engagements in recent days and attended a commemoration in northern Norway on Monday of the 50th anniversary of the first Allied victory of World War II.
A great-grandson of Britain’s Queen Victoria, King Olav ascended the throne in 1957. For many Norwegians, he is a symbol of resistance to the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II. As crown prince, he fled to Britain in 1940.
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