Princess Anne in hospital

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Breaking news on Sky .

Princess Anne in hospital following an “ incident” yesterday .

More worry for the RF

😀😀

Honestly I wouldn't be remotely surprised if one of these appears as a supposedly valid reason given some of the threads on here!

Joking aside though, five days in hospital for concussion is quite a long time. The "usual" hospital stay for horsey folk like me is "observe overnight in side room off a&e and go home with a head injuries check list". Even given extra time for VIP treatment, five days is quite a long stay so it must have been quite bad. They are maybe playing it down bc of the illness of KC and Princess Catherine.

Maybe there were other injuries they haven't told us about (and nor should they, if she wants it to remain private).

Don’t forget, she is is in her seventies. If she’s “lost” a couple of hours, they probably didn’t want to take any chances I don’t think they are playing it down. They always said she would spend a few days in hospital. That is what happened

Even if it’s a relatively average horsey-girl injury it’s gonna look worse on a woman of 73 than a woman of 33 or 53 😬

I don’t know the science behind why older people bruise so badly but a fall that makes a younger person a pale lilac can make a senior citizen go dark maroon and then fade gradually to yellow.

I’m guessing they need to be bit more careful with post-impact effects like swelling too? And probably need to investigate whether the accident had an underlying cause attributed to something undiagnosed? I imagine cognitive decline can sometimes make a person a bit more slapdash about H&S/risk assessment as well?

(just did a google and it looks like serious injury risk does increase considerably with age, this is about head trauma but there were lots of results for torso area injuries too: https://journalfeed.org/article-a-day/2024/golden-years-hidden-dangers-blunt-head-trauma-in-the-elderly/ )

(for the record I don’t think we have any right to know anything about the RF’s health beyond the absolute basics, I just find it interesting to think about in general terms re: plausible, non conspiratorial reasons why a 73 year old lady might need 5 days in-patient stay for a fairly normal, not gravely serious injury even without the VIP factor)

I don’t know the science behind why older people bruise so badly but a fall that makes a younger person a pale lilac can make a senior citizen go dark maroon and then fade gradually to yellow

Yeah, as 'older person' coming up to 70 can confirm. I stand in the shower and think 'don't recall hitting my leg/arm THAT hard...' as for hands,where the skin is thinner, don't get me started. I've had fingers that look like aubergines before now.

My grandma's shin went black when my young cousin accidentally kicked her (small girl idly swinging her legs as she sat on a chair.) It did clear up, but it looked horrible for a time.

just did a google and it looks like serious injury risk does increase considerably with age,

Lots of hip fractures caused by falls that would be fairly minor for a younger person.

I did (vaguely!) know about fractures being more likely due to depleted bone density (I spent a week on a general women’s ward a while back and it was pretty much split between women under 60 with bad UTIs/kidney infections and women over 60 with bad fractures!) but obvs in Princess Anne’s case she’ll have had whatever form of imagining was deemed clinically appropriate pretty early on, so a few days of observations would be observing for something non-X-ray-able.

And it would probably be a bit of a folly to not outright tell the public about anything requiring a visible cast/boot/sling etc.

Hopefully PA will be back on her feet and watching her x thousandth foundation stone be laid in the not-too-distant future.

Bet her security team are relieved to be back
on the normal premises too - must be quite stressful when your boss is in an NHS hospital and you can’t just clear a whole floor/have 24 hour activity going on around you.
At least the paparazzi are a lot less interested in Anne than in Catherine!

I think three days qualifies as "a few". Five not so much.

I’m not sure you can arbitrarily say that. A “few” is entirely subjective. I personally wouldn’t classify 5 days as “a lot”. I would say 5 sweets is “a few” for example. They didn’t know how long she would be in. More than one day but less that a week. So “a few” seems entirely accurate. I think you are splitting hairs

typo

I assume we were only told at all because they needed to explain why she wasn’t going to be at the state dinner for the Japanese Royal visit.

3 days? 5 days? What does it matter? 🙄

I've already explained that it indicates quite a serious concussion.

@Circularbreathing6789 are you the doctor in charge of this case?

No, you said 5 was not “a few” which is entirely your subjective opinion. You are clearly trying to imply that the palace was lying about the seriousness of the injury on the basis of pure conjecture

in my scattergun and entirely subjective mind (probably massively influenced by hair-stylin’, magpie salutin’ Nan upthread)

2 = Couple
3 = Few
5 = Handful
6 + Number Of (?))

’A handful of days’ deffo doesn’t sound right though, so I reckon ‘few’ makes sense as 5 in this context.

I have no clue re wtf 4 might be.

IME the final day in hospital is spent waiting around for the (massively overstretched, extremely professional) pharmacist and someone to have a moment spare to fill out the discharge papers. In my inner fantasy land a VIP might not have to wait as long, but my DD was always treated like a rockstar on the kiddie cancer ward, so maybe Anne was twiddling her thumbs for a while too?

Plus difficult to sneak out in the dark during Midsummer so maybe the reported timeline is slightly off for security purposes? Photographers were definitely outside but maybe pics/video of Anne wouldn’t be published in UK publications, just overseas ones?

I’m kinda loving Tim Laurence and the cool bag - I deffo understand that ‘please bring me something that isn’t hospital food’ feeling (although I heard it’s actually very good at our next-nearest children’s hospital 😭)

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-06-25/princess-anne-visited-in-hospital-by-husband-after-being-injured-by-a-horse

I wonder if she is talking like a Meader? (Someone from the Southmead area of Bristol).

Tim Lawrence showing how to 'grey rock' the media!

And yes, loving the cooler bag 😀

Funny how that cooler bag is roughly the size of the one DH brought to hospital for me after I last gave birth..... it mainly contained wine.

This did occur to me but I didn’t want to accidentally start uncharitable rumours re: the Princess boozing with a head injury 😂

Sir Tim calling the contents ‘Treats from home’ doesn’t help, as I imagine Gatcombe Park has an impressive wine cellar!

I believe she is tee total.

My friend has been to functions with her and she has only ever drunk water.

I believe the Pope is considering canonising her.

Might still enjoy a tipple when at home with her family, even if she (sensibly) avoids alcohol at official functions.

Yes she might enjoy a tipple at home but avoid drinking while on official duties because she’s a jolly sensible gal, good egg, down to earth, full of common sense blah blah.

Oh come on, I imagine (I don’t know because I have never met her and neither have 95 percent of people on this thread) she’s quite pleasant if you met her in public because she has been brought up to put commoners at ease. But why the fawning over her? Lots of upper class women are like her; non nonsense horsey types like Clare Balding. Pleasant but really not worth the exaggerated veneration.

Same old clichés.