Nothing to do, not even today Queen Elizabeth will be seen.
Buckingham Palace has announced that the 95-year-old sovereign will not participate, as announced, in the commemorations for the war dead. The reason is a "back strain".
After weeks of absence and rest, Elizabeth was to return to public for the first time today. The occasion was the annual National Remembrance Day Commemoration Service, honoring the war dead, in front of the London Cenotaph. This year the ceremonies return to their traditional splendor, after the Covid version of 2020, with the participation of over 10,000 veterans and hundreds of soldiers.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will instead be there and, as usual, Prince Charles will lay a wreath of flowers at the cenotaph. So a minute of silence across the UK.
It was her doctors who prescribed Elizabeth a period of absolute rest, during which she was also forced to a rare 24-hour hospitalization. His health conditions, Buckingham Palace repeats reassuring his subjects, are good.
But evidently not yet excellent even if, according to the Sky news royal correspondent, the problem has nothing to do with the reasons why the doctors had recommended the British sovereign to rest. "Her Majesty - continues the palace note - is disappointed that she will not participate" in the ceremony at the cenotaph in London.
(Unioneonline / D)
