# European royals and world leaders mourn Norway’s King Harald V

https://mins.news/en/item/36820

- euronews, 2026-08-28 20:34 UTC
- World
- Original: http://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/28/europes-royal-houses-and-world-leaders-mourn-the-death-of-norways-king-harald-v

> European royal families and world leaders are mourning the death of Norway’s King Harald V. Europe’s longest-reigning monarch had been hospitalised in Oslo since 17 August with haemolytic anaemia, a condition caused by the unusually rapid destruction of red blood cells.

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