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According to Ministry of Defence, bad weather thwarted an RAF rescue crew attempting to fly the Duke of Edinburgh to hospital.
Prince Philip, 91, was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on Wednesday through road ambulance while staying with the Queen at her retreat at Balmoral after a reappearance of the bladder infection he had in the summer.
A Sea King helicopter was immediately dispatched to hurry him to the hospital but poor visibility and heavy rain made the weather “absolutely dreadful” and the crew unable to reach him.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: “The RAF can confirm that a search and rescue crew from RAF Lossiemouth in Morayshire was asked to assist with the transfer of a patient. However, due to poor weather we were unable to assist.”
The Sea King landed four times during the expedition, but unable to get close enough.
The Duke made the journey by road of almost 50 miles from the castle in the Cairngorms to the city hospital in an ambulance instead. According to a source, he has been advised complete rest and will have no visitors in hospital on Friday. He is said to be in constant touch with his family through telephone.
Philip is expected to remain in hospital for the next few days, but responding well to treatment. His latest health scare came two and a half months after he spent five nights in hospital with a bladder infection following the Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames. He was forced to miss some of the key celebrations for his wife’s 60 years on the throne after he was admitted to the King Edward VII Hospital in central London the day after braving the elements on a barge for several hours.
Philip also underwent a successful procedure to clear a blocked coronary artery last December and was in hospital for four nights over Christmas. Before the heart scare he had been fit and apparently healthy, and led the active life of a man of younger years.
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