UK News 07-12-2001 Sophie Wessex "Comfortable" After Losing Baby who: Countess of Wessex what: Has emergency surgery for ectopic pregnancy where: King Edward VII Hospital, LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: The Countess of Wessex is reportedly "comfortable" following emergency surgery on an ectopic pregnancy after she was rushed to hospital in a Royal Berkshire Air Ambulance yesterday. 36 year-old Sophie, wife of Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, "was taken straight into the operating theatre at the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers in London from the helicopter," says The Times. "The surgery was the first indication that Sophie Wessex, 36, was pregnant," reports The Independent`s Paul Peachey. The papers have widely reproted that she was six weeks preganant because "symptoms of an ectopic pregnancy, where the fertilised egg develops inside a fallopian tube instead of the womb, are most likely to show between the sixth and seventh weeks of pregnancy." "Edward arrived at the hospital in Marylebone, West London at 4pm and was by Sophie`s side as she woke to comfort her," says The Sun. "He left at 6pm to let Sophie sleep, and returned to the Palace." [... more]

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