When King Charles’ most cancers analysis was shared final yr, Buckingham Palace mentioned in a press release that they didn’t plan to make the identify of the doctor treating the King, or some other appointments to the Medical Family, public.
Nevertheless, in his New Yr Honours listing, King Charles inadvertently shared the names of the docs who’ve helped him throughout his remedy by personally honouring senior employees from his medical workforce.
The monarch has given two members of his medical workforce awards underneath the RVO, that are bestowed independently of Downing Avenue to individuals who have served the monarch or the royal household in a private approach.
King Charles’ private Honours
King Charles’s GP, Dr. Douglas Glass, in any other case often known as the apothecary to the King, and his doctor, Professor Richard Leach, have each been recognised for his or her private service to the monarch and the royal household within the 2025 Honours Listing.
In addition to treating the King, Dr. Glass served as Queen Elizabeth II’s apothecary and was the medical skilled in attendance at Balmoral when she died.
As for Professor Leach, he’s a guide doctor on the non-public King Edward VII’s Hospital in central London, the place members of the royal household have been handled for many years.
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It is not unusual for docs of the royal household to obtain private recognition, as King Charles’ mom knighted her Head of the Medical Family, Sir Huw Thomas in 2021.
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Whereas King Charles has honoured Professor Leach and Dr. Glass, it is a totally different identify that he appointed head of the Royal Medical Family.
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That position was given to Dr. Michael Dixon, a practising GP of over 50 years.
Dr. Dixon is a Fellow of the Royal Faculty of GPs, a Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians, and beforehand labored as a medical adviser to the monarch when he was Prince of Wales.
On the time of his appointment, eyebrows have been raised due to his particular curiosity in complementary and different medication, notably homeopathy.
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Buckingham Palace mentioned of the skilled’s penchant for homeopathy: “Dr Dixon doesn’t consider homeopathy can remedy most cancers. His place is that complementary therapies can sit alongside typical therapies, offered they’re protected, applicable and proof primarily based.
“As Prince of Wales, The King’s place on complementary therapies, built-in well being and affected person selection was nicely documented. In his personal phrases, ‘Neither is it about rejecting typical medicines in favour of different therapies: the time period complementary medication means exactly what it says’.”
