Prince Philip Leaves the Hospital

There’s more cause for celebration at Buckingham Palace Saturday as Queen Elizabeth II’s husband was released from the hospital after a five-day stay. Prince Philip, who turns 91 on Sunday, was treated this week for a bladder infection, and missed out on several events held in honor of the queen’s Diamond Jubilee. It wasn’t the prince’s first health scare—in December he was hospitalized around the Christmas holidays and underwent surgery for a blocked coronary artery. The prince will be celebrating his upcoming birthday “privately” a Buckingham Palace spokesman told reporters on Saturday.