King Harald V spent part of Friday at Oslo’s Rikshospitalet. For a few tense hours, that fact was enough to alarm a country bracing for bad royal news. The outlet Se og Hør reported that the 89-year-old monarch had been taken to the hospital by ambulance. The story spread so fast that the palace felt the need to respond within hours.
The Norwegian Royal Court’s answer was blunt. “It is not correct, as published by Se og Hør, that the King was driven to Rikshospitalet by ambulance today,” said a spokesperson. “The King was there today for a planned checkup and follow-up with a doctor, and he was driven in his own car.”
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