Physician to the Queen

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Physician to the King/Queen is the title of the physician acting as officer of the Medical Household of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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• The last Physician to the Queen was Sir Richard Thompson, KCVO DM FRCP, appointed 1993, retired 2005.

• Erasmus Darwin was asked by George III to be Royal Physician, but he declined.