King Charles III Admitted to London Hospital for Scheduled Surgery
Buckingham Palace has announced that King Charles III was admitted to a London hospital on Friday for scheduled surgery.
This comes a week after the palace revealed that the British monarch would be undergoing treatment for an enlarged prostate.
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In a statement, the palace stated, “The king was this morning admitted to a London hospital for scheduled treatment.” They also noted that King Charles III expressed his gratitude to “all those who have sent their good wishes over the past week.”
The surgery is expected to proceed as planned, and updates on the king’s condition will be provided as necessary.
Royal officials took the unusual step last week of issuing a bulletin on the 75-year-old monarch’s health, disclosing that he had an enlarged prostate but the condition was benign.
It came soon after a separate statement that the king’s daughter-in-law, Catherine, Princess of Wales, 42, had undergone successful abdominal surgery for an unspecified condition.
Kate, married to Charles’s elder son and heir to the throne Prince William, is facing up to two weeks’ recuperation at the private London Clinic, then several months away from public duties.
British media reported that Charles was being treated at the same clinic as Kate and is understood to have visited her there ahead of his treatment.
Charles travelled to his private Sandringham estate in eastern England last Friday to prepare for what royal officials said would be a “corrective procedure”, before returning to London on Thursday.
Charles was told he had the condition, which is common in men aged over 50 and affects urination, last Wednesday after experiencing symptoms and having a check-up.
