Physician to the Queen
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Physician to the King/Queen is the title of one (or more?) physicians acting as officer of the Medical Household of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.
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- The current Physician to the Queen is Sir Richard Thompson, KCVO DM FRCP, appointed 1993, and Head of the Medical Household.
- Erasmus Darwin was asked by George III to be Royal Physician, but he declined.