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'Convalescing' Duke of Edinburgh to miss Sandringham garden party

Reported by Metro.co.uk on Monday, 11 June 2012 (on June 11, 2012)
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*The Duke of Edinburgh will miss a garden party at Sandringham tomorrow as he continues to recover from a bladder infection that ruled him out of the finale of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.*

The Duke of Edinburgh waves as he leaves King Edward VII Hospital in London on Saturday (Picture: PA)

The Queen will also go ahead with a planned visit to the East Midlands on Wednesday without her consort, Buckingham Palace confirmed.

Prince Philip left King Edward VII hospital in London on Saturday, a day before his 91st birthday.

He was admitted to hospital on Monday, a day after taking part in the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant that saw him take his place alongside the Queen on the Spirit of Chartwell barge in a flotilla of 1,000 boats along the Thames in extremely wet and cold conditions.

That meant he missed the Diamond Jubilee Concert on the Mall that evening and a national service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral, a carriage procession and flypast of World War 2 aircraft above Buckingham Palace the following day.

Today a 41-gun royal salute was fired by the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery in London's Hyde Park to mark the duke's 91st birthday.

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