Norway’s King Harald V of Norway Receives Temporary Pacemaker in Malaysia

The 87-year-old, Europe’s oldest ruling monarch, has been fitted with a temporary pacemaker and is “doing well”, a newly-released update on his health has said. The decision was made to install the pacemaker Sunday morning, local time, due to the King’s “low heart rate,” according to the release.

The King’s anesthesiologist Bjørn Bendz, who is with the monarch, said that the pacemaker will make his journey back to Norway safer.