{"id":233594,"date":"2026-05-16T08:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233594\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T08:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:48:10","slug":"palace-shares-major-update-on-queens-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233594\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace shares major update on Queen&#8217;s health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1402741_011632_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Palace shares major update on Queen's health\"\/>Queen Margrethe, who abdicated in 2024 turned 86 on April 16<\/p>\n<p>Danish Royal House has shared a major update on Queen Margrethe, 86, health after she was admitted to hospital for chest pain.<\/p>\n<p>The palace confirmed the Queen has undergone an angioplasty procedure after being admitted to hospital this week for chest pain.<\/p>\n<p>The palace said Friday in a statement the queen had &#8220;a balloon dilation of a coronary artery&#8221; at Copenhagen\u00b4s main hospital Rigshospitalet, where she was admitted on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The queen, who has been a chain smoker for much of her life, was in &#8220;good condition&#8221; but would remain in hospital for &#8220;a few more days,&#8221; the palace said.<\/p>\n<p>As per the AFP, Margrethe, who abdicated in 2024 and turned 86 on April 16, attended Sweden\u00b4s King Carl XVI Gustaf\u00b4s 80th birthday in early May.<\/p>\n<p>The former sovereign reigned in the Scandinavian country for 52 years before passing the throne to her eldest son Frederik in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Hugely popular among Danes for subtly modernising the monarchy, Margrethe has faced multiple health problems in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>She had long vowed that she would never abdicate, but major back surgery in 2023 led her to change her mind.<\/p>\n<p>Margrethe is known for her significant interest in the arts.<\/p>\n<p>As a designer she won a Danish film award for best costume in 2024 and translated Simone de Beauvoir\u00b4s &#8220;All Men Are Mortal&#8221; under a pseudonym with her late husband, Prince Consort Henrik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Margrethe, who abdicated in 2024 turned 86 on April 16 Danish Royal House has shared a major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-233594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}