“Serious matter’: King Harald’s personal doctor speaks plainly after heart surgery. “There will be no paddling in the Oslofjord for the next two weeks,” was the joking instruction given to the 87-year-old.

Crown Prince Haakon will continue to represent the Norwegian monarch until he is fit again. The doctor didn't know what type of infection it was. ‘You almost shoot the infection with cannon fire, very broad antibiotics, then we saw that there was a good response to it’