WORLD : Norway’s King Olav Has Stroke
Norway’s King Olav V, at 86 the world’s oldest reigning monarch, was in an unstable condition today after a weekend stroke that paralyzed the left part of his body.
“The situation is still uncertain,” his doctors said in a statement.
Members of the Norwegian royal family rushed home from Britain where they had been celebrating the 50th birthday of deposed King Constantine of Greece, to join Crown Prince Harald in a bedside vigil.
King Olav was admitted to a hospital last Tuesday with an inflamed pericardium--the sac that surrounds the heart. On Friday, doctors said the inflammation had receded but late Saturday a bulletin was issued saying Olav’s condition had deteriorated.
Later a medical bulletin said a blood vessel had clogged in the king’s brain, resulting in paralysis to his left side.
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