FILE PHOTO: Filer from 2017 showing Danish Queen Margrethe and her husband prince Henrik. The Danish Royal House states in a press release September 6, 2017 that Prince Henrik suffers from dementia. Scanpix Denmark/ Henning Bagger/via REUTERS

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark’s Prince Henrik, the husband of Queen Margrethe, has been transferred from a Copenhagen hospital to Fredensborg Castle north of the city, where he wants to spend “his final time”, the Royal House said in a statement on Tuesday.

His condition remained serious, the statement said.

The 83-year-old French-born prince was diagnosed with a benign tumor two weeks ago. He had been hospitalized following an illness that began during a private trip to Egypt.

His oldest son, Crown Prince Frederik, a member of the International Olympic Committee, returned home from the Winter Olympics in South Korea last week to be with Prince Henrik after his condition “seriously worsened”.