Medical royal colleges pay tribute to Queen

UK medical royal colleges have paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II after the news that the country’s longest serving monarch had died, aged 96.The Royal College of Physicians of London was among those to pay tribute to her service over a 70 year reign. The college noted that as its “visitor”—the equivalent of a patron for other organisations—the Queen visited its Regent’s Park headquarters three times. Her first visit was for the building’s official opening in 1964, and she returned in 1986 to open the nearby medical precinct of terraced houses that were refurbished to accommodate RCP departments and other medical organisations.Most recently the Queen visited in 2018 to mark the college’s 500th anniversary, where she stood alongside a portrait of her predecessor King Henry VIII, who agreed to the founding of the RCP in 1518 when asked by his own personal doctor Thomas Linacre.The RCP announced that it would…
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