# The Queen was in Hospital: 2021-10-21 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 21, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951 "2021-10-21T22:40:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/1 "2021-10-21T22:40:57Z")
[-=Link=-](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/queen-hospital-preliminary-investigations-1.6220248) Seems the Queen spent Wednesday night in (the) hospital. She was released about noon on Thursday. She is 95 years old, and frankly hardly needs a reason. The other day, the Palace cancelled a trip to Northern Ireland. I suppose this sort of thing is inevitable. (I wonder what sort of hospital room she gets.) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/2 "2021-10-21T22:43:25Z")
Would you want to be the doctor assigned to her care? Talk about pressure. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/3 "2021-10-21T22:45:11Z")
Well we all know what will happen. We just are not sure when. She is at a private hospital, [King Edward VII.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Edward_VII's_Hospital) So far I have not found any photos of the wards. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/4 "2021-10-21T22:46:07Z")
I wonder if she had ever stayed in a hospital during her reign before other than for childbirth. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/5 "2021-10-21T22:49:20Z")
Most of the Queens appointments switched to zoom during the pandemic. She’s almost two years older and trying to jump back into a busy schedule of appearances. It could easily overwhem her. I’m going to miss seeing her in the news. It’s amazing that she’s 95 and still so active. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/6 "2021-10-21T22:50:14Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I wonder if she had ever stayed in a hospital during her reign before other than for childbirth. She had knee surgery a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/7 "2021-10-21T22:50:27Z")
A significant number of the royal family has used the hospital at one time or another. I recall reading that there was a suite set aside for their use, but I am not certain if this is accurate. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/8 "2021-10-21T22:55:03Z")
“off with his head!” ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/9 "2021-10-22T00:49:26Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I wonder if she had ever stayed in a hospital during her reign before other than for childbirth. A few times for various issues, I think, but never for childbirth. All of her children were born at Buckingham Palace or Clarence House. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/10 "2021-10-22T02:19:58Z")
Her first hospital stay was her own birth; I long knew that she had been delivered by cesarean section, and for that to be done 95 years ago, something had to have gone drastically wrong. And it had; QE II was breech, and the Queen Mother had been pushing for more than 10 hours, so they decided the baby wasn’t going to come out alive any other way, and both of them made a full recovery. (Bill Clinton, who also had a recent hospital stay, was also delivered that way; no, the “natural-born citizen” phrase in the Constitution is not about this.) I had this mental image of her in a hospital bed, wearing a standard hospital gown, and her crown. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/11 "2021-10-22T02:23:55Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I had this mental image of her in a hospital bed, wearing a standard hospital gown, and her crown. That’s funny, I asked myself also if she wore a hospital gown, or else a representative nightgown. I didn’t think of the crown, though. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/12 "2021-10-22T03:16:31Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I had this mental image of her in a hospital bed, wearing a standard hospital gown, and her crown. You forgot the sceptre. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/13 "2021-10-22T11:46:45Z")
You won’t be surprised to hear that the crown stays under high security on display at the Tower of London. Except when it’s brought out for the State Opening of Parliament - and in the days when she wore it for the Opening ceremony, she had it for a day or so in advance so that she could practice and get adjusted to the weight. Apparently on one occasion, when the corgis were let put for their early morning run, they went for one of the policemen on security duty in the Palace garden. Suddenly he heard a piercing whistle: the corgis stopped yapping and fell back, and he saw the Queen, in her nightie and curlers, with her fingers in her mouth - and the crown on her head. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/14 "2021-10-22T14:03:48Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > She’s almost two years older and trying to jump back into a busy schedule of appearances. Plus after a very recent very stressful life event. Loss of a longtime spouse at this life stage must take a lot out of someone. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I long knew that she had been delivered by cesarean section, and for that to be done 95 years ago, something had to have gone drastically wrong. And it had; QE II was breech, and the Queen Mother had been pushing for more than 10 hours, I see, no wonder she’s been in no hurry to leave, as she had a hard time getting here. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/15 "2021-10-22T14:19:48Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > > > I had this mental image of her in a hospital bed, wearing a standard hospital gown, and her crown. > > You forgot the sceptre. Too much risk of a staff infection. I’ll show myself out ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/16 "2021-10-22T14:37:21Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > Suddenly he heard a piercing whistle: the corgis stopped yapping and fell back, and he saw the Queen, in her nightie and curlers, with her fingers in her mouth - and the crown on her head. I’d stop yapping, too. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/17 "2021-10-22T15:09:16Z")
All I ask is that her funeral not interrupt Jeopardy! like the fucking insurrection did. ---
**Author:** ![tavaritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@tavaritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavaritz)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/18 "2021-10-22T15:56:37Z")
What of it? I’m 60-years old and I’m going into hospital on 5th of November at 11:55. I suppose I’m out circa 14:00. Last time I was there it took about 2 hours. Could be they take me in and operate but I doubt that. Last time they said that there’s nothing to do unless something happens. Now something has happened, so in that sense bets are off. To not keep you in suspense I tell that it’s about my left eye. I had some crude on my left eye’s lens (artificial one) on the inside. I was told that it happens that silica gathers some particles from the surrounding liquid and there’s nothing what to do except change the lens, but that’s too big an operation for such low bother. Now the thing that was attached to the lens has slipped off and floats around inside my eye. As it is quite a big particle it can damage my retina, so it could be that my eye will be opened and cleaned from the inside. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/19 "2021-10-22T15:57:50Z")
Nicely done. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951/20 "2021-10-22T16:02:53Z")
I was going to comment that its pretty messed she’s treated at a hospital that was named after her great grandfather who was euthanized by his doctor. But on checking apparently that was a George V not Edward VII: > **[How Did King George V Really Die?](https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-king-george-v-really-die)** > > Sometimes the truth takes time to come out. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-queen-was-in-hospital-2021-10-21/952951.md?page=2)