Philip's hospitalization also means he will no longer meet privately with Canada's Gov. David Johnston on Wednesday, as previously scheduled. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is also in the U. In December the duke was hospitalized with a blocked coronary artery , a major health scare, during the holiday season.
For the first time in years, he was forced to miss the Royal Family's traditional Christmas festivities, which included attending a morning church service, viewing the Queen's annual Christmas broadcast and a shooting party on Boxing Day.
His sudden illness meant that he would miss out on the final two days of celebrations marking the Queen's 60th year on the throne. Her Majesty felt it: not even royal stoicism could camouflage her remarkably dour expression as the concert unfolded without him.
At the climax of the evening, shortly before fireworks exploded overhead, Prince Charles gave voice to his mother's concern. Buckingham Palace described it as a "precautionary measure" in a statement released on Monday.
On Tuesday afternoon, about 20 photographers and journalists stood watch outside the hospital where he is being treated, and six broadcasting vans with antennas sat ready to beam out updates on the Duke's condition. Two guards watched the door of the hospital. Several more stood on corners watching the media scrum. The media's concern stems from very real developments with Prince Philip's health that remain on the public's mind.
In the fall of , Prince Philip relinquished his commitments with several charities and organizations like the Royal Agricultural Society and his chancellorship of Cambridge and Edinburgh universities. Speaking to the BBC for a documentary timed to his 90th birthday last June, he said rather bluntly that "it's better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.
I want to enjoy myself for a bit now. With less responsibility, less rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say On top of that, your memory's going, I can't remember names. In fact, these friends insist she appears to be fitter and possibly even more mobile now than when she entered her eighties. They put this down to a new contentment marking the end of the turbulent and worrying years of family strife and a new confidence about the future of the monarchy thanks largely to the arrival in the family of Kate Middleton.
Until yesterday, when Prince Philip was taken ill, the fact that he, too, had been looking much stronger after his heart operation was an additional boost for her. But the nagging question remains: Should Prince Philip and the Queen have been standing in the cold and wet for so long. Touching moment Prince Charles calls for show of public support for his father.
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