Queen Paola of Belgium suffered a stroke overnight during a visit to Venice, sources said on Wednesday. The 81-year-old is not said to be in a life-threatening condition.
She will taken back to Belgium on a flight later on Wednesday, the sources said. Paola is the wife of the former King Albert II and she was monarch from 1993 until his abdication in 2013 in favour of their son King Philippe.(source)
She never was a monarch. Her husband was. May she get better soon.