King Harald of Norway has been taken to hospital while on holiday.
Harald V, who just turned 89, was admitted to the University Hospital in Tenerife.
Norway’s royals announced that the king was being treated for an infection and dehydration.
The statement said he is ”reportedly” doing well.
The admission to hospital comes at a troubling time for Norway’s royals. The family is under scrutiny after the Epstein files revealed that the Crown Princess, Mette-Marit, had had a long friendship with the convicted sex offender and even stayed at his house.
A string of emails have emerged showing links between the two with one indicating that the wife of the heir to the throne skipped a major international event, a celebration for the beginning of the reign of the King of the Netherlands, to spend time with Epstein.
The revelations came just as Mette-Marit’s so from a previous relationship, Marius Borg Hoiby, went on trial in Oslo for a number of offences including counts of rape which he denies.
King Harald remains the most popular member of Norway’s royal family and is seen as a strong constitutional monarch. He has reigned since 1991, succeeding his equally popular father, King Olav V, who was voted the Norwegian of the century in 1999.
King Harald recently turned 89 and marked the occasion with a symbolic portrait showing him with his heir, Crown Prince Haakon, and his eldest child and second in line to the throne, Princess Ingrid Alexandra.
