{"id":339741,"date":"2026-09-07T06:24:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339741\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T06:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:24:48","slug":"denmarks-former-queen-margrethe-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339741\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark&#8217;s former queen Margrethe hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Denmark&#8217;s former queen Margrethe II has been hospitalized, the royal house said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Danish news agency Ritzau reported that Margrethe was suffering from a blood clot in the hip area and mild dehydration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Margrethe will remain in Copenhagen&#8217;s Rigshospitalet university hospital for observation and to undergo further examinations, according to a statement from the palace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She will therefore miss the state funeral for Norwegian King Harald V in Oslo on Wednesday, the palace said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The queen was in good spirits and doing well given the circumstances, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 86-year-old was admitted to hospital in May with angina pectoris &#8211; chest pain caused by a disruption in the blood supply to the heart. She had to undergo a procedure to widen her blood vessels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Later that same month, she was admitted for treatment after a CT scan revealed significant bleeding in the hip area after a fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Margrethe unexpectedly abdicated in 2024 and, after 52 years as Denmark&#8217;s head of state, handed the throne over to her son, King Frederik X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark&#8217;s former queen Margrethe II has been hospitalized, the royal house said on Sunday. Danish news agency Ritzau&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2224,28291,127531,77537,125748,9,24,108419,63,122,124,123,127533,127534,127532],"class_list":["post-339741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-ct","tag-danish","tag-denmarks","tag-frederik-x","tag-harald-v","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-norwegian","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rigshospitalet-university-hospital","tag-ritzau","tag-sven-hoppe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339741","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=339741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}