Princess Eugenie and her household had been advised to “put together for the worst” after her father-in-law contracted COVID-19.
George Brooksbank, father of Eugenie’s husband Jack, was placed on a ventilator for 5 weeks following a visit to France, however the 71-year-old has now recovered from the life-threatening sickness.
His spouse Nicola, who additionally contracted the illness — however didn’t want hospital remedy — thanked the British Nationwide Well being Service for saving her husband’s life, and advised The Telegraph: “Doubtless, they saved him, and we couldn’t be extra grateful. We weren’t capable of see him all through his remedy and greater than as soon as we had been advised to anticipate the worst.”
Brooksbank’s situation lastly improved following a tracheotomy, and he thanked the workers at each the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London and the Royal Brompton Hospital for saving his life.
“The purpose I actually need to get throughout is that I believe the NHS is totally magnificent. The best way I used to be handled was unimaginable. Nothing was an excessive amount of hassle and at no level did I get a way of a scarcity of docs or nurses or any impression that the service was in any manner overwhelmed.”
“I actually owe them my life,” he added.
After emergency remedy following Brooksbank’s preliminary prognosis, he was moved to a ward on the Royal Brompton Hospital which makes a speciality of coronary heart and lung situations in individuals recovering from Covid-19. He then underwent an additional interval of rehabilitation.
The retired chartered accountant is now “completely advantageous” and stated: “There was all the time any person at hand. I need to provide profound due to everybody who was concerned. It was an actual eye-opener for any person who has not been in hospital earlier than for any size of time. I actually owe them my life.”
Eugenie, the youngest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, married Jack — who works for George Clooney and Rande Gerber’s billion-dollar tequila model Casamigos — in 2018.