The queen knighted her personal physician

Now that the public commitments of the Queen Elizabeth have become rarer, one has the feeling that the gestures she made have become more dense in meaning. So you can read the decision to give the court physician, Sir Huw Thomas, the title of knight of the Victorian Royal Order. Together with him, all the members of the medical staff who take care of the royal family were awarded, but the queen wanted to personally meet Professor Thomas, who has been part of it for 15 years and has led the group for 7 years. On the occasion, she wanted to thank him for the attention and commitment he had in taking care of Filippo’s health, until the last day of his life.

The health theme of the regina is much debated in Great Britain: la sovereign, after some investigations at the King Edward VII hospital, has given up on various commitments in recent weeks. It was Professor Thomas Huw himself who prescribed a period of rest from the labors of government. Following his instructions, Elizabeth was not present at the commemoration of the fallen of the First World War and, after canceling her participation in Cop 26 in Glasgow, she also missed the five-year national assembly of the Church of England, of which she is nominally head. . Represented by his son Edoardo who read one of his messages, on that occasion he recalled how “None of us can slow down the passage of time.”

Instead, subjects and relatives were very happy to see her again at the baptism of the children of Eugenie of York and Zara Phillips, Elizabeth’s granddaughters. It was, say sources close to the sovereign, a “last minute decision” to which the queen cared very much, knowing how important this event was for her children and grandchildren. There was also behind this decision the opinion of the doctor, Professor Thomas.

The new knight, after studying in Cambridge, specialized in gastroenterology and general medicine and worked in several London hospitals. For the Imperial Cancer research Fund he carried out research on molecular genetics of colorectal cancer. He is also Professor of Gastrointestinal Genetics in the Department of Surgery and Oncology at Imperial College London. The recognition as a knight of the Victorian Royal Order now received is the prerogative of the queen and is granted to those who have distinguished themselves for having served the royal family.

To receive the distinction, Professor Thomas went to Windsor Castle with his wife and, after the event, he wanted to thank the sovereign“According to the head of the medical staff, these last two years have been very complicated. I am happy that my work has been appreciated. With the pandemic, our main job has been above all to keep the people we care for safe ». The Royal Family’s medical staff, among other things, vaccinated the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in due course. He also had to pay extreme attention to controlling the so-called “bubble”, that is the small number of personnel who could come into contact with Elisabetta and his wife during the lockdown.