Fears are growing for Norway’s King Harald after Crown Prince Haakon and Queen Sonja cancelled all their scheduled engagements, and the palace reported his condition is ‘very serious’ today.
The update comes days after the Royal Court said Europe’s oldest-serving monarch, 89, was stable and had ‘responded to treatment’ for a ‘bacterial infection in his blood’.
The latest statement issued this morning said: ‘His Majesty the King’s state of health is very serious.’
No further details have been provided at this stage.
King Harald has been receiving treatment for haemolytic anaemia, a disorder which sees red blood cells destroyed at an abnormally fast rate and
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