Queen Elizabeth advised by doctors to rest for 2 weeks
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The British monarch also canceled an official trip to Northern Ireland this month with the palace saying she had been told to rest by her medical staff.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has been advised by her doctors to rest for at least the next two weeks, avoiding official visits and only undertaking light duties during this time, Buckingham Palace said on Friday.
However, the world’s oldest and longest-reigning monarch, is determined to appear at the annual Remembrance Sunday service that commemorates the nation’s war dead in central London on Nov. 14, the palace said.
Elizabeth, who is the queen of 15 other realms including Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, has been resting at her Windsor Castle since she stayed overnight in hospital last week after undergoing “preliminary investigations” for an unspecified ailment that is not related to COVID-19.
The monarch had already pulled out of addressing world leaders in person next week at the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
And she has endured a difficult two years. In April her husband of more than seven decades, Prince Philip, died aged 99, while in 2020 her grandson Harry and his wife Meghan stepped back from royal duties and moved to the United States.
Her second son Prince Andrew has also quit royal duties over his links to U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender who killed himself in a Manhattan jail in 2019.
Following the latest advice, Elizabeth will no longer attend a major event on Nov. 13 at the Royal Albert Hall hosted by a British military charity. But the queen had a “firm intention” to be present at the main national service of remembrance for veterans on Sunday Nov. 14, the palace said.
A palace source said the queen remained in good spirits and had recorded a video address for the COP26 delegates on Friday. Further rest was a “sensible precaution,” the source added.