Norway’s King Olav Out of Hospital
Reuters
Oslo —
Norway’s King Olav, the world’s oldest reigning monarch, left the hospital where he had been recovering from a stroke earlier this month, doctors said.
The National Hospital said in a statement that the king, 68, was discharged Thursday after more than three weeks of treatment for a blood clot in the brain and pneumonia.
The stroke left him partly paralyzed but doctors said that some freedom of movement was returning.
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