let's just get you an update now on the
health of prince philip the husband of
britain's queen elizabeth you'll
remember he's been treated in hospital
in london for nearly
two weeks buckingham palace have
released this statement
the duke of edinburgh was today
transferred from king
edward hospital to saint bartholomew's
hospital where
doctors will continue to treat him for
an infection
as well as undertake testing and
observation for a pre-existing heart
condition
the duke remains comfortable and is
responding to
treatment but is expected to remain in
hospital until at least
the week after next our correspondent
john
mcmanus is outside the hospital where
the duke of edinburgh was being treated
thanks
very much john for joining us just bring
us up to date on the situation there
with the duke
yes that statement from buckingham
palace as you say coming
in the last 45 minutes confirming that
the duke's nearly two weeks
day at king edward vii hospital behind
me
is now over but instead of going home or
to windsor castle
he's in fact been taken to another
hospital here in central london
saint bartholomew is commonly known as
saint barts and that's quite telling
because
saint bart specializes in cardiac
conditions in treating cardiac
conditions
and we know that in the past the duke
has had problems
in that area in 2011 he was treated for
a blocked coronary artery
and he's had to deal with other problems
as well the following year
he had a bladder infection in 2013 he
had exploratory surgery
on his abdomen and at christmas in 2019
the duke was here again where he spent
four nights leaving on christmas eve
after being treated uh for an unknown
ailment the palace didn't say
why he was here they are usually very
tight-lipped about the health
of the duke who's 99 years old but also
all the members of the royal family and
they haven't given too much away
this time either while the duke's been
here any information we have managed to
glean has come from members of his own
family
with the duke of cambridge prince
william for example saying that his
grandfather
was okay and the duke also had um
a visit from his son the prince of wales
last weekend who came here to the
hospital
for about half an hour so the duke of
edinburgh 99 years old
transferred to another hospital across
london and the palace saying
it's unlikely that he'll be out of
hospital certainly not by the end of
this week anyway
yeah john he's had lived quite a quiet
life in
in recent years bowing out of public
life in 2017
we're just showing our viewers there
those images of the ambulance leaving
the hospital uh earlier not often you
see
a member of the royal family in in an
nhs
ambulance
no very unusual and it was a little bit
of a cloak and dagger operation as well
to get the duke out of king edwards and
on his way to saint bars we saw that
ambulance leave
but we weren't quite sure who was in it
at the time and certainly the palace
didn't give anything away until after
the duke was well on his way they
clearly didn't want
too much media attention on a 99 year
old but the duke has had
several health problems as i said over
the past decade and when he was here
at king edwards in 2019 at that point
prince
prince charles the prince of wales told
a member of the public look
at that age things don't often work as
they're supposed to so there is a bit of
an understanding
and acceptance that the duke who's going
to be 100
in june is perhaps not in the best of
health we will await further updates
from buckingham palace though