Elizabeth II absent from an official ceremony for health reasons – teller report

Elizabeth II will not appear in public this weekend. The 95-year-old Queen will not attend an official ceremony in London on Sunday, November 14, as she planned to do, due to her state of health, Buckingham Palace has announced. “The Queen, having hurt her back, has decided that she will not be able to attend today’s Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph. Her Majesty is disappointed to miss the ceremony,” said the entourage of the monarch in a press release.

No later than Thursday, November 11, Buckingham had nevertheless indicated that Elizabeth II had the “firm intention” to participate in this ceremony in tribute to the victims of wars. She was to attend from the balcony of the Foreign Ministry. His son Prince Charles, heir to the throne, who turns 73 today, will lay a wreath in his mother’s name at the Cenotaph, a war memorial located in central London, as he used to have been doing it since 2017.

This last-minute cancellation risks reviving the concern of British subjects for the state of health of Elizabeth II. Last month, she had spent a night in the hospital in the utmost secrecy, after undergoing medical tests. On the advice of her doctors, the sovereign was, after this brief hospitalization, asked to rest, for a period of at least two weeks.

His agenda has thus been greatly reduced, forcing him to cancel several commitments made. She notably gave up her trip to COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, being represented by Princes Charles and William. The wife of the late Prince Philip also had to postpone “unwillingly” a trip of two to Northern Ireland. A choice “for comfort” of the queen, had specified a royal source in Daily Mail, who was moved, like most of the Anglo-Saxon media, to see her walking with a cane during the centenary of the Royal British Legion, on October 12, at Westminster Abbey.

“I spoke to Her Majesty and she is in very good shape“, reassured Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome. During a visit to Brixton, a district of London, Prince Charles had confirmed his statements. “She is fine”, had entrusted the future monarch to the public. If she has stopped walking her corgis, according to The Sun, Elizabeth II was spotted, on November 1, driving her Jaguar on her grounds at Windsor Castle, where she now resides full time.