February 11, 2009 7:20 PM
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Nancy Reagan OK After Fall
(CBS/AP)
Former first lady Nancy Reagan slipped and fell early Thursday in her London hotel room and was taken to a hospital for examination and released, her chief of staff said.
Reagan, who turns 84 on July 6, wasn't hurt and doctors sent her back to the hotel for rest, spokeswoman Joanne Drake said from her office at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Southern California.
"She took a fall at the hotel. She had some pain and they took her to the hospital," Drake said, adding Reagan was on an approximately 10-day, private vacation to Britain. Reagan was released a short time later.
"She will be following her doctor's advice to limit her activities over the next two weeks until the pain subsides and full mobility returns," Cathy Busch, an aide traveling with the former first lady, said in a statement.
Reagan plans on continuing her stay but her scheduled will be lightened, Drake said.
CBS News Correspondent Larry Miller in London reports that during her trip, the former first lady had tea with longtime Reagan-family friend Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister, who herself has been ill in-recent-years but made a special effort to attend Ronald Reagan's funeral in Washington, D.C. last year and his burial in California.
She also visited Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, at Clarence House.
Reagan, who turns 84 on July 6, wasn't hurt and doctors sent her back to the hotel for rest, spokeswoman Joanne Drake said from her office at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Southern California.
"She took a fall at the hotel. She had some pain and they took her to the hospital," Drake said, adding Reagan was on an approximately 10-day, private vacation to Britain. Reagan was released a short time later.
"She will be following her doctor's advice to limit her activities over the next two weeks until the pain subsides and full mobility returns," Cathy Busch, an aide traveling with the former first lady, said in a statement.
Reagan plans on continuing her stay but her scheduled will be lightened, Drake said.
CBS News Correspondent Larry Miller in London reports that during her trip, the former first lady had tea with longtime Reagan-family friend Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister, who herself has been ill in-recent-years but made a special effort to attend Ronald Reagan's funeral in Washington, D.C. last year and his burial in California.
She also visited Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, at Clarence House.
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Kevin Hechtkopf Kevin Hechtkopf is CBSNews.com's politics editor.
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