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An award-winning caput cook and concierge are among immoderate of nan offerings astatine nan backstage infirmary treating King Charles for cancer.
The London Clinic has been nan go-to for nan royal family over galore decades – and besides counts Liz Taylor and John F Kennedy among its erstwhile patients.
In January nan King, 75, was admitted to nan backstage session successful Marylebone to acquisition 'routine treatment' for an enlarged prostate.
Doctors discovered an unspecified shape of crab aft tests successful February. Buckingham Palace confirmed it was not prostate cancer.
His Majesty is nary alien to nan hospital. As nan then-Prince of Wales, he opened nan London Clinic's physiotherapy section successful 1989.
The work connected connection to patients astatine nan backstage infirmary - including meals brought connected metallic trolleys - has been compared to that of a 5-star hotel
Meals provided see food from Cornish boats and nutrient from Smithfield market
Further royal visits included Princess Margaret unveiling nan MRI portion successful 1991 and nan precocious Queen launching a caller crab portion successful 2010.
The clinic, opened by the then-Duke and Duchess of York successful 1932, offers patients their ain concierge service, while nan hospital's executive cook heads a room serving serves food from Cornish boats and nutrient from Smithfield's Market.
Head cook Paul O'Brien, awarded successful 2021 for supporting patients during nan coronavirus pandemic, leads a squad which provides customised meals for patients that besides root ingredients from Home Counties farms.
A concierge tin thief patients put recreation and accommodation while besides booking tours, theatre shows and restaurants successful nan capital.
Dimple Mistry, who besides had abdominal room and was astatine nan London Clinic for 5 nights successful 2021, told nan Mail: 'Far from emotion for illustration a hospital, it was for illustration staying astatine a 5-star hotel.
She described 'plentiful and fresh' basking nutrient arriving connected metallic trolleys, bathrooms stocked pinch Molton Brown toiletries and staff who offered to thief lavation her hair.
She added: 'The blinds and room somesthesia was were controlled by a distant power and nan ceiling was afloat of stars which I could move connected successful a heartbeat.
'The attraction itself was besides importantly better, pinch unit having nan luxury of clip to present themselves each clip they entered nan room.
Buckingham Palace coming revealed King Charles will return to public-facing duties, conscionable 2 months aft his crab diagnosis. While nan King is not yet clear of nan illness and is still undergoing treatment, his aesculapian squad are understood to beryllium 'pleased pinch nan advancement made truthful far' and 'remain positive' astir his recovery
The London Clinic, wherever nan Princess of Wales is being treated aft undergoing abdominal surgery, first opened successful 1932. Above: Police extracurricular nan infirmary arsenic Kate undergoes treatment
The Princess of Wales Kate Middleton, pictured present visiting Factory Works successful Birmingham successful October 23, was a diligent astatine nan London Clinic successful January
The London Clinic has antecedently treated Prince Philip. The precocious Duke of Edinburgh is pictured supra leaving nan backstage infirmary successful 2013
Queen Elizabeth II is pictured leaving nan London Clinic aft visiting her hubby Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, connected June 15, 2013
'The champion portion of each of this were nan afternoons, erstwhile I could telephone down to nan room and bid myself barroom each day.
'I'd happily spell backmost conscionable to acquisition this type of work - and nan exhaustive nutrient action - again.
'Overall nan delightful paper paired pinch businesslike nursing and attentive consultants made for a awesome week.'
Buckingham Palace today revealed King Charles will return to public-facing duties, conscionable 2 months aft his crab diagnosis.
While nan King is not yet clear of nan illness and is still undergoing treatment, his aesculapian squad are understood to beryllium 'pleased pinch nan advancement made truthful far' and 'remain positive' astir his recovery.
The Palace person not shared immoderate specifications of his curen aliases really agelong it will proceed for.
He first sought curen nan backstage session for 3 days successful January for an enlarged prostate.
At nan clip it thought that nan information was not cancerous, but successful February it was revealed consequent tests had discovered beingness of nan illness elsewhere successful his body.
The Princess of Wales besides attended nan infirmary arsenic a diligent successful January aft undergoing abdominal surgery.
In 2013, Prince Philip was admitted to nan session for what was described arsenic 'abdominal investigations', while antecedently Princess Margaret was treated location successful 1980 to person a benign tegument lesion removed.
In 1947, early President Kennedy - past a US Congressman - was besides diagnosed pinch Addison's illness astatine nan clinic.
Hollywood character Taylor had a knee cognition location successful January 1963 aft falling connected a movie group while making nan movie The V.I.P.s astatine Shepperton Studios successful Surrey.
Other erstwhile patients see erstwhile Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who was admitted successful 1939 - erstwhile Leader of nan Opposition - for room connected his prostate.
Another erstwhile PM, Conservative Anthony Eden, had his gall bladder removed astatine nan session successful 1953 erstwhile he was Foreign Secretary - and existent Foreign Secretary David Cameron, PM from 2010 until 2016, was calved location successful 1966.
Hollywood prima Elizabeth Taylor underwent a knee cognition astatine The London Clinic successful January 1963. Above: Taylor leaving nan infirmary pinch her limb bandaged
Princess Margaret was treated location successful 1980 to person a benign tegument lesion removed
Future Labour PM Clement Attlee - past nan Leader of nan Opposition - is seen recovering successful furniture astatine The London Clinic successful 1939 aft having room connected his prostate
Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested location successful 1998 for crimes against humanity.
The London Clinic was nan 1930s brainchild of a group of Harley Street doctors who group retired to scheme a caller nursing location utilizing nan highest aesculapian standards of nan day.
According to its website, nan infirmary was 'founded connected nan principles of providing excellence successful 1 place'.
The installation said it could dainty 155 conditions, pinch hundreds of treatments, tests and scans available.
It besides operated arsenic a charity, reinvesting successful research, acquisition and innovation.
The latest inspection by nan Care Quality Commission, carried retired successful June 2021, rated The London Clinic arsenic 'good' overall.
According to nan wellness watchdog, nan infirmary has astir 23,000 inpatients a twelvemonth pinch a further 110,000 outpatients.
It is registered to supply surgery, diagnostics and screening, curen of disease, upset aliases injury, guidance of proviso of humor and blood-derived products.
US President John F Kennedy, pictured present pinch nan Queen during a authorities meal astatine Buckingham Palace successful 1961, was diagnosed pinch Addison's Disease astatine nan London Clinic successful 1947
Lord Cameron, erstwhile Prime Minister and now Foreign Secretary, was calved astatine nan London Clinic successful October 1966
The session astatine 20 Devonshire Place has a starring cancer centre which hosts patients for chemotherapy, radiotherapy and different treatments.
It boasts of being capable to supply 'CyberKnife' radiotherapy for prostate crab patients, 'SpyGlass' exertion for patients needing an endoscopy and CAR-T immunotherapy for crab sufferers.
And successful 2019, a master centre for robotic room was opened.
The building besides has 7 main operating theatres and 3 further theatres, positive six specialty wards for surgeries successful urology, gynaecology, thoracic surgery, orthopaedics and spinal procedures.
