Queen Elizabeth II, struggling to move at 96, will miss a folk festival in Scotland that she regularly attends. What revives her concerns about her health status, for the British media that broadcasts the information this Friday.
After having given up returning to London to enthrone the new prime minister on Tuesday, the monarch has decided not to attend the Braemar Gathering this weekend, which will be attended by her heir, Prince Charles.
The decision was made “for your convenience,” the Press Association agency said. According to daily mail, the event is in the Queen’s private diary and is not an official engagement. But so far, he has rarely missed this appointment, in 70 years of reign.
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The Queen spends the end of the summer like every year at her Scottish residence in Balmoral and often attends this event, as part of the Highland Games, where teams compete in log or hammer throwing competitions.
Since a night in hospital nearly a year ago for unspecified tests, the queen appears less and less often due to trouble moving. She delegates an increasing part of her functions to her son Carlos de ella, who in particular delivered the speech from the throne in Parliament for the first time in her place in May, one of the functions essential constitutional provisions of it.
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On Tuesday, it will be at Balmoral, and not Buckingham Palace in London, where he will receive Boris Johnson, who will present his resignation and then his successor, whose name (Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak) will be announced on Monday.
At the beginning of June, the British had celebrated for four days the 70 years of the reign of Elizabeth II, who is the longest-serving monarch in the world. She was almost absent from this platinum jubilee, showing herself only twice briefly on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in front of tens of thousands of people.
A few weeks later, however, he made several public appearances in Scotland, appearing smiling and carrying a cane during an armed forces parade in Edinburgh in late June.
Source: BFM TV
