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Norway’s Queen Sonja Leaves Hospital After Breathing Problems

Examinations show that the situation has normalised and she would be on sick leave for the rest of the week.

By Channels Television
Updated April 22, 2025
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(FILES) Queen Sonja of Norway poses as she visits the “A Journey Within” contemporary art exhibition by Norwegian artist Anna-Eva Bergman at the Musee d’Art Moderne de Paris museum in Paris, on March 29, 2023. Queen Sonja of Norway, 87, was admitted to an Oslo hospital late on April 21, 2025 following breathing difficulties, the royal palace announced. “The Queen was transported by medical helicopter from the royal chalet in Sikkilsdalen, where the royal couple were spending the Easter holidays,” the palace said in a statement. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)

 

Queen Sonja of Norway was discharged from an Oslo hospital on Tuesday after being admitted the previous evening for breathing difficulties, the royal palace said.

“Her Majesty the Queen has been discharged from Oslo University Hospital,” the palace said.

“The Queen was admitted due to shortness of breath. Examinations show that the situation has normalised,” it said, adding that she would be on sick leave for the rest of the week.

Sonja, 87, had been transported by medical helicopter from the royal chalet in Sikkilsdalen, where she and King Harald — Europe’s oldest reigning monarch at 88 — were spending the Easter holidays.

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(FILES) Queen Sonja of Norway reacts as she visits the “A Journey Within” contemporary art exhibition by Norwegian artist Anna-Eva Bergman at the Musee d’Art Moderne de Paris museum in Paris, on March 29, 2023. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)

Since 1924, the Norwegian royal family has spent most of its Easter holidays at the chalet, according to the NTB news agency.

Queen Sonja was briefly hospitalised in January after experiencing cardiac fibrillation, a rapid and irregular heartbeat. She then had a pacemaker installed, a procedure the palace described as “successful.”

King Harald also had a pacemaker inserted in March 2024 after contracting an infection during a private vacation in Malaysia.

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