Queen Sonja of Norway paid a pre-Christmas visit to a hospital for children and adolescents in Lørenskog in Akershus county on Tuesday morning. The occasion to give news of King Harald V, hospitalized in Oslo.
The press was waiting for him in the cold. Upon her arrival at the children’s and adolescent clinic of Akershus University Hospital in Lørenskog, where she had come to visit, Queen Sonja of Norway thanked the journalists present for covering this engagement. But she also wanted to give them news of her husband, King Harald V. The Palace had in fact announced the day before that the latter, 85 years old like her, had been hospitalized at the Rikshospitalet in Oslo so that the contagion he had been diagnosed with could be treated there with intravenous antibiotics.
“You are probably wondering how another hospital, the Rikshospitalet, is doing and it is doing very, very well,” the monarch’s wife told the press, as reported by the newspaper. The newspaper“. And to add: “The King will probably be back in a few days, and we can’t wait. Luckily he’s going very well”.
Sonja joined the young patients for a Christmas seminar
During this visit, the mother of Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Märtha Louise met the staff of this hospital, as well as many of the children and adolescents who have been admitted there in this period before Christmas. You were able to discover the activities that are offered to these young patients, as well as their families. Like a music session or a Christmas workshop to make decorations and postcards for the tree in this hospital department. Workshop attended by Queen Sonja.
