The Queen's physician has to maintain privacy for a patient whose life is lived out in public.
He also works at another medical practice a few streets away from the Edward VII - a private hospital in Mayfair, used by the royals, which originally treated wounded officers from the Boer War.
Another of her doctors, Peter Fisher, was killed in an accident when cycling in London three years ago. From the Tudors to the 18th Century, royal doctors were "as much psychological as diagnostic" in their approach, offering soothing advice to people who were unlikely to take direct instructions, she says.Prof Hurren, who has researched the history of medicine, says the doctor had to be one of the most trusted people in the royal circle. "It was very intimate. They needed to entrust them with the most private parts of their lives.
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