The King talked about his health while meeting patients on a visit to a new hospital in the West Midlands. Crowds of staff, patients, and volunteers gathered to welcome Charles to the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital on Wednesday (September 3) as he officially opened the 736-bed facility in Smethwick.

The monarch was greeted by cheers and waving flags before he visited one of the hospital’s acute elderly care wards, where he met 85-year-old patient Jacqueline Page, from Great Barr. Mrs Page said she was “delighted” to meet Charles after seeing him in 1978 with her parents when he came to Birmingham to open Perry Barr Stadium.

“You came in the helicopter, and you got out and came straight towards my parents," she said. “They shook hands with you but I didn’t get a look in, so I’m

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