For years, the royal household’s hospital of selection has been King Edward VII’s Hospital, discreetly positioned inside London’s Harley Road medical district.
It was a favorite of Prince Philip, who stayed there in 2021, in addition to Queen Camilla, who reportedly underwent an operation there again in 2012. Even the late Queen was an in-patient – selecting the hospital for a knee operation in 2003.
So royal followers had been little question stunned when the Princess of Wales introduced she had undergone a “deliberate surgical procedure” at one other hospital, The London Clinic, positioned a mere one-minute drive from King Edward VII.
And much more so, when days later, King Charles introduced that he would be a part of Kate at The London Clinic for surgical procedure on his enlarged prostate.
So why did the monarch and his “expensive” daughter-in-law select to be handled in the identical hospital, on the identical time? All is revealed on the brand new episode of A Proper Royal Podcast, titled A Proper Royal Well being Scare, which you’ll take heed to under.
Co-hosts Andrea Caamano and Emmy Griffiths speak to HELLO!’s royal editor Emily Nash and royal photographers Arthur Edwards and James Whatling concerning the extremely bizarre begin to the 12 months the royal household have had, and reply a number of the most requested questions by royal watchers.
Speaking about Charles and Kate’s selection of hospital, Emily explains: “It is carefully linked to King Edward VII, which is the place the royals have historically gone. It’s not a query of them rejecting that one.
“Lots of the senior consultants who’re at The London Clinic have labored inside the medical family. So, there’s some crossover. And it is comprehensible, individuals do not all the time go for the hospital, they go for the advisor and for the one who’s going to be taking care of them.”
Whereas it hasn’t been revealed which docs have handled the royals, it must be famous that the late Queen’s former non-public physician Sir Huw Thomas now works on the London Clinic. In accordance with the hospital’s official web site, Sir Huw – who carried out the Queen’s knee surgical procedure and obtained a knighthood in 2021 – is a Guide Doctor and Gastroenterologist with a selected curiosity in indigestion, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel illness and colonoscopy.
