
An airplane carrying Norway’s King Harald V departed Malaysia on Sunday, a day after he was implanted with a pacemaker. The monarch was hospitalized for an infection during a private vacation on the northern resort island of Langkawi. He underwent surgery at the Sultanah Maliha Hospital to implant a temporary pacemaker due to a low heart rate.
Norwegian media outlets reported that King Harald traveled to Malaysia with his wife, Queen Sonja, to celebrate his 87th birthday. A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane, which took off from Oslo, arrived in Langkawi to transport the monarch back to Norway.