Denmark's Queen Margrethe out of hospital after heart procedure, royal palace says

Published on 19/05/2026 - 12:07 GMT+2

Denmark's erstwhile monarch, 86-year-old Queen Margrethe, has been released from infirmary aft undergoing an angioplasty process past week, the palace said connected Tuesday.

"Her Majesty Queen Margrethe was discharged from Rigshospitalet contiguous and is returning to Fredensborg Palace," it said successful a caller connection connected Tuesday.

"In the coming period, Her Majesty volition request rest," it said, adding that a planned theatre engagement connected May 23 had been cancelled.

The queen underwent "a balloon dilation of a coronary artery" astatine Copenhagen's main Rigshospitalet hospital, the palace said successful a connection connected 15 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."