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The King jokes 'bits don't work so well' after 70 as he opens hospital
King Charles has joked about ageing as he opened a new hospital in Birmingham, telling a patient "the bits don't work so well when you get past 70".
The King, 76, officially opened the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in Smethwick on Wednesday. The 736-bed facility opened its doors to patients last October.
One of them, Jacqueline Page, 85, from nearby Great Barr, told him she had seen him when he visited the city in 1978. She said he shook hands with her parents but she "didn't get a look in, so I'm so delighted to meet you today".
The King reminisced about the "wonderful old helicopter" he arrived in that day, before the conversation turned to ageing and Mrs Page told him she was "wearing out". The King replied: "I know, this is the terrible thing, as I am discovering already.
The bits don't work so well when you get past 70." The King greeted the crowds of hundreds of patients, staff, medical students and volunteers, who cheered, clapped and took selfies as he stopped to shake their hands and speak to them. He asked prostate cancer patient Matthew Shinda, 73, what he liked to drink, to which his daughter replied he "loves his malts".
The monarch asked if he was allowed a "tiny dram of whisky occasionally.
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