Camilla makes a slow recovery from surgery · 2007-04-14 11:53
The second anniversary of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall’s marriage passed this week without much attention, as Camilla makes a painfully slow recovery from surgery on March 5.
The Prince is concerned about Camilla’s delicate health since her hysterectomy last month.
“I’ve never seen the Prince behave quite like this,” says a senior royal figure.
“He’s usually preoccupied with his own affairs, but it’s lovely to see how patient he is with Camilla, fussing around her.”
Initially, when the Duchess left the King Edward VII Hospital, she headed straight for Raymill House, her Georgian home in Laycock 17 miles from Highgrove, which she insisted on retaining after she married Charles.
At Raymill, with her Jack Russell terriers, Tosca, Rosie and Freddie, and surrounded by the security that the Wiltshire police must provide when she is in residence, the Duchess knew she would be cocooned in the type of tranquillity that simply would not have been available at Highgrove – virtually Charles’s office in the country – with its constant comings and goings.
According to Daily Mail, Charles makes constant visits, sitting with her and reading to her, and assuring her of the doctors’ confidence that she was making a splendid recovery.
Certainly she is recovering from the surgery, but rather slower than her physicians had hoped.
“It’s almost as though, now he’s got her, he wants to make sure he doesn’t lose her. If Diana’s recovery from a similar operation had been slower than expected, you can bet he would have been irritated by it.”
Camilla’s operation was a success and her slow recovery is put down to a number of medical factors not directly involved with the removal of her womb.
Happily, the Duchess shows no signs of osteoporosis, the brittle bone condition from which both her mother Rosalind Shand and her grandmother died, and whose charity, the National Osteoporosis Society, has her as its president.
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