Denmark's Queen Margrethe hospitalised in Copenhagen with chest pain, royal court says

Published on 14/05/2026 - 15:28 GMT+2

Denmark's Queen Margrethe, who abdicated successful 2024 has been admitted to infirmary owed to thorax pain, the Royal House of Denmark said connected Thursday.

The 86-year-old Queen was admitted to Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen's main hospital, "this day owed to angina," the tribunal said successful a statement.

She volition stay successful infirmary implicit the play for reflection and further examinations, the tribunal added.

"Her Majesty is tired, but successful bully spirits," it said.

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 to a alteration of heart.

Margrethe besides has a 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 J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."