Denmark's Queen Margrethe has angioplasty in hospital, royal palace says

Published on 15/05/2026 - 12:01 GMT+2

Denmark's Queen Margrethe has undergone an angioplasty process aft being admitted to infirmary this week for thorax pain, the palace said successful a connection connected Friday.

The tribunal said the queen had "a balloon dilation of a coronary artery" astatine Copenhagen's main infirmary Rigshospitalet, wherever she was admitted connected Thursday.

The queen, who has been a concatenation smoker for overmuch of her life, was successful "good condition" but would stay successful infirmary for "a fewer much days," the palace said.

Margrethe, who abdicated successful 2024 and turned 86 connected 16 April, attended Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf's 80th day successful aboriginal May.

The erstwhile sovereign reigned successful the Scandinavian state for 52 years earlier passing the throne to her eldest lad Frederik successful January 2024.

Hugely fashionable among Danes for subtly modernising the monarchy, Margrethe has faced aggregate wellness problems successful caller years.

She had agelong vowed that she would ne'er abdicate, but large backmost country successful 2023 led her to alteration her mind.

Margrethe is known for her important involvement successful the arts.

As a decorator she won a Danish movie grant for champion costume successful 2024 and translated Simone de Beauvoir's "All Men Are Mortal" nether a pseudonym with her precocious husband, Prince Consort Henrik.

She has besides illustrated respective books, including JRR Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."