UK: PRINCESS MARGARET ILLNESS

Описание: (1 Jan 2001) English/Nat
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Buckingham Palace says Britain's Princess Margaret is ill and has undergone medical tests.

Margaret, 70, who is the sister of Queen Elizabeth II, was absent from the royal family's Christmas Eve and Christmas Day church services this year.

Margaret had been in bed at the royal Sandringham estate over the holidays, and a doctor visited on Saturday and again on Sunday, said a palace spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The palace did not comment on the nature of the illness or the treatment.

Margaret suffered serious burns to her legs and feet in an accident in the Caribbean in 1999.

The previous year she suffered a stroke while on holiday in the Caribbean, and returned to London's King Edward the Seventh Hospital where she was admitted for treatment.

The Princess was a heavy smoker, and in 1985 a small part of her left lung was surgically removed.

Up until the operation she had smoked 60 cigarettes a day.

The exact nature of the tests that the Princess has undertaken is being kept confidential, but the results are expected in the next few days.

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