The young King Peter V and his wife Queen Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen paid frequent visits to the hospitalised patients; during one such visit to Saint Joseph's Hospital, the Queen was impressed by the fact that children were treated in the same infirmaries as adults: with the money that had come from her dowry, Queen Stephanie proposed first the creation of a children's infirmary and then of an entire hospital devoted to poor ailing children.