KING CHOSE KATE'S HOSPITAL TO SAVE TAXPAYERS MONEY!

THE King chose to be treated in the hospital where the Princess of Wales is staying in order to save taxpayers money on extra security.

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Charles, 75, was said to be "doing well" yesterday after undergoing a corrective procedure for an enlarged prostate at the London Clinic. The Princess, 42, had her planned abdominal surgery at the Marylebone hospital last week and the monarch opted to be treated at the same site rather than in nearby King Edward VII's.

A source said the King was "doing well" after yesterday's operation. He is expected to stay in hospital for two days.

Charles arrived at the private clinic at 8.30am with Queen Camilla and they visited Kate to check on her progress.

If he had picked King Edward VII's - the Royal Family's favoured hospital - for the surgery a second bodyguard detail would have been brought in for there too, at an estimated additional cost of £14,000.

An insider said: "With the Princess similarly at the Clinic, shared resourcing has been possible with regards to public policing." The King is understood to have pored over the details and felt it was hugely important that the Royal Family was thinking about the cost implications for taxpayers.

He considers it his duty to save money by having only one police presence stationed outside the same hospital. The cost of security for the royals is not discussed publicly by Palace aides or by Scotland Yard but it is estimated to be around £7,000 per day.

Camilla accompanying her husband to hospital was another break with tradition.