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Norway’s 89-year-old King Harald V’s health has worsened as he remains in hospital on antibiotics for a bloodstream infection and is on sick leave, with Crown Prince Haakon acting as regent while treatment continues.
Norway’s 89-year-old King Harald V, Europe’s oldest reigning monarch, has had his health deteriorate and is being treated in hospital for haemolytic anaemia with a bacterial infection, prompting two weeks of sick leave; Crown Prince Haakon is acting as regent as family visits follow, amid a history of recent health issues for the royals.
Norway's Crown Prince Haakon will reduce royal duties to spend more time with his gravely ill wife, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, who has pulmonary fibrosis and is awaiting a lung transplant; the palace said he canceled official engagements and even pulled out of a cabinet meeting. The report also notes the sentencing of Mette-Marit’s son, Marius Borg Høiby, to four years in prison on multiple charges.
An Oslo court found Marius Borg Hoiby, Crown Prince Haakon’s stepson, guilty on two counts of rape and one count of domestic violence with related offenses, and sentenced him to four years in prison; he was acquitted on two other rape charges. Prosecutors had sought about seven-and-a-half years. The seven-week trial detailed his drug use, self-made videos, and more than 800 messages, and the verdict comes amid public scrutiny of the royal family, with Crown Princess Mette-Marit facing serious lung illness.