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January 8, 2001 

SANDRINGHAM-- (UNB/AP) - Princess Margaret's health is improving after suffering what doctors believed to be a minor stroke, Queen Elizabeth II said Sunday.

Speaking to an elderly woman after services at St. Mary Magdalen Church, the queen said her younger sister was "getting better."

The 70-year-old Margaret had been in bed at the royal family's Sandringham estate over the holidays and was absent from church on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Buckingham Palace revealed the possibility of a stroke on Wednesday, adding that Margaret's life was not in danger and that medical tests were continuing.

The queen's only sister has been dogged by health problems for several years. She suffered serious burns to her legs and feet in an accident on the Caribbean island of Mustique in 1999. The previous year she suffered a mild stroke.

In 1985, the princess was admitted to hospital complaining of chest pains and had a piece of her left lung removed.