Operation Queen Paola went well

- The Belgian Queen Paola Friday successfully operated. The 79-year-old mother of the present King Philip had broken her hip in a fall at her home, Belvedere Castle in Brussels.

The wife of King Albert was operated at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc in the Belgian capital and it was very successful, according to the royal palace. Around New Year, she was there for a week treated for a spinal fracture that she had sustained in a fall.