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Charles in hospital visit

By DAVE MASTERS
Sun Online

PRINCE Charles today met with victims of the London terrorist atrocities and paid tribute to the resilience of the British people.

Speaking on a visit to St Mary's Hospital, in Paddington - just yards from the Edgware Road blast scene - he said: "It's been one of the things that many of us have dreaded for a long time and now they have finally got through.

"What I can never get over is the resilience of the British people who have set us all a fantastic example of how to recover."

Flanked by the Duchess of Cornwall, he praised the "extraordinary" work of the emergency services and chatted to survivors at their bedsides.

He said to Londoner Cynthia Bobb-Semple, who was showered with glass as her train left the station: "It's always one's dread isn't it, on the Tube?"

The 43-year-old replied: "I think I’m still a bit shocked. We had just pulled out of Edgware Road and the next thing, it was chaos. I'm still picking pieces (of glass) out."

Another patient on the Joseph Toynbee Ward, Professor John Tulloch, 63, told Charles he did not have "any memory of what happened".

But revealed how he was helped by a "ministering angel" - an Air Force officer - who climbed into his carriage and kept him conscious until rescuers arrived - by chatting to him.

Hospital worker Andrew Meyer told Charles they had been "inundated" with volunteers offering to work.

Andrew - who was one of the first at the Edgware Road blast scene -said: "Eleven years of service, I’ve never had a day like it. The training kicked in for everyone."

And he later told the Duchess of Cornwall: "The patients that were alive were so brave... not screaming. They waited their turn."

As the royal party departed, Camilla said to staff: "Thank you all very much indeed...you did a brilliant job. It makes me very proud to be British."