Today, as Prince Charles, Camilla, and Prince William hurried to be with her in Balmoral, Buckingham Palace announced that the Queen is now under medical care after physicians grew worried about her health.
The recent statement has increased concerns about the monarch’s health, and Her Majesty’s personal family members have been alerted, causing her two primary hears to go to her bedside.
‘Following additional assessment this morning, The Queen’s physicians are concerned about Her Majesty’s health and have advised she stay under medical monitoring,’ a royal spokesman said. The Queen is still relaxed and in Balmoral.
Liz Truss, the new prime minister, was presented with a note in the Commons moments before she made her announcement about capping energy prices.
The news from Buckingham Palace this afternoon, according to Ms. Truss, “will be very concerning to the whole nation.” She said, “My sympathies, as well as the thoughts of people across our United Kingdom, are with Her Majesty, the Queen, and her family at this time.”
On the advice of her physicians, she was had to abruptly postpone a Privy Council meeting yesterday.
The 96-year-old queen has been urged to relax after a hectic day on Tuesday, during which she welcomed both Liz Truss and Boris Johnson to Balmoral and carried out other minor responsibilities.
And now Buckingham Palace disclosed that Balmoral has had physicians come in due to concerns this morning.
Almost last evening, she was scheduled to conduct the Privy Council, during which the new Prime Minister would have taken the oath to serve as First Lord of the Treasury and Cabinet ministers would have been sworn into office and declared privy counsellors, if they had not previously been so constituted.
I believe I speak on behalf of the whole House when I say that Her Majesty the Queen and the royal family are in our thoughts and prayers at this time, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said during an interruption of SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford’s statement during the energy discussion. “We will notify the House properly if there is anything more,” he continued.
It follows a litany of health issues for the ageing monarch, who was warned against leaving her Highland residence this week to fly to London to accept the resignation of her departing Prime Minister and install Miss Truss.
It was the first time in her 70-year reign that the Queen has nominated a Prime Minister at Balmoral.
Instead of having the Queen go from Scotland, where she has been experiencing intermittent mobility issues since October, the two lawmakers drove the 1,000 miles round trip from London.
The delay in the procedures, which will be rescheduled, was not accompanied by any constitutional problems, according to Buckingham Palace, and the choice to advise Her Majesty to rest did not necessitate a hospital stay.
But delaying the virtual encounter will unavoidably raise additional questions about the Queen’s health.
After working all day yesterday, Her Majesty has decided to take the physicians’ advise and relax this afternoon, a palace spokeswoman stated last night.
“This implies that the Privy Council meeting that was scheduled for this evening will be rescheduled,” the statement said.
The Queen was spotted on Tuesday grinning and awake, but nonetheless fragile, with a stick and showing the inevitable signs of ageing on her hands: significant bruises on her palms.
She had been taking a well-deserved annual vacation on Royal Deeside and hadn’t been seen in public in 47 days.
The Queen had two obligations on Tuesday: first, she had to meet with Mr. Johnson and Miss Truss; second, she had to present Donal McCabe, her departing communications secretary, with the Insignia of a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, which is the monarch’s personal award for service to the Royal Family.
Before the first audiences started, some visitors were spotted departing the palace while she dealt with several red boxes of paperwork.
The Queen often invites relatives and friends to stay with her during her yearly vacation, and this year is claimed to have been “inundated” with visitors. However, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, who are in the UK for a quick visit from California, were conspicuously absent.
The queen is “aged, not unwell,” according to reliable sources, and one individual who recently visited her claimed she was “on fantastic form.”
However, she opted out of the Braemar Gathering, the most well-known competition from the Highland Games circuit, last week. It was another important event on the royal calendar.
At the State Opening of Parliament earlier in the year, the Prince of Wales substituted for her.
Her physicians ordered her to rest for the next three months after she discreetly spent a night in the hospital in October undergoing tests.
As a result, she missed the Cop26 climate change negotiations in Glasgow and the Remembrance Sunday Cenotaph ceremony in London.
The Queen, who lost her 73-year-old husband Prince Philip in April of last year, had the COVID-19 virus in February and experienced minor cold-like symptoms, but she said the illness left her feeling “extremely fatigued and drained.”
However, she was able to make two brief appearances during her Platinum Jubilee festivities in June as the queen with the country’s longest reign.