OSLO (AFP) – Norway’s 87-year-old Queen Sonja was fitted with a pacemaker yesterday at an Oslo hospital in a procedure the royal palace said was “successful”.
The queen was briefly admitted to hospital in Lillehammer in southeastern Norway at the weekend after suffering from an irregular heartbeat while cross-country skiing.
The palace said on Tuesday that she would be fitted with a pacemaker as a result of that incident.
“The procedure was successful and the queen is doing well,” it said yesterday.
The queen will remain at the Oslo University Hospital “for a day or two” for observation, the palace said.
Sonja’s husband King Harald, who at 87 is Europe’s oldest reigning monarch, was also fitted with a pacemaker in March after contracting an infection that left him in a weakened condition during a private vacation in Malaysia.
