Why a Hospital Hid a Body During the Queen’s Visit

Ana Maria Rus

Queen Elizabeth II unknowingly "shared a room with a corpse for 20 minutes" during a visit to a hospital in the U.S. Virgin Islands that had only one air-conditioned room, according to a new biography. Writer Hugo Vickers described how Elizabeth and Prince Philip visited the island of Tortola on an "unbearably hot" day and staff at the hospital felt Her Majesty would need a moment in the cool air. However, a patient had just died and "the only place to put the body was in a cupboard in that air-

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