Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, greet guests astatine a reception for the Global Investment Summit successful Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, greet guests astatine a reception for the Global Investment Summit successful Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

LONDON – Queen Elizabeth II has reluctantly accepted aesculapian proposal to remainder for a fewer days and has canceled a travel to Northern Ireland, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday.

The palace didn't connection specifics connected the decision, but says the 95-year-old monarch is “in bully spirits,'' and disappointed that she volition nary longer beryllium capable to sojourn Northern Ireland for engagements Wednesday and Thursday.

“The Queen sends her warmest bully wishes to the radical of Northern Ireland, and looks guardant to visiting successful the future,'' the palace said.

She is resting astatine Windsor Castle, wherever she has stayed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic past year.

The determination comes conscionable days aft Elizabeth was seen utilizing a walking instrumentality astatine a large nationalist lawsuit erstwhile attending a Westminster Abbey work marking the centenary of the Royal British Legion, an equipped forces charity.

She had antecedently been photographed utilizing a cane successful 2003, but that was aft she underwent genu surgery.

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The queen, who was widowed this year, inactive keeps a engaged docket of royal duties. On Tuesday, she held audiences with diplomats and hosted a reception astatine Windsor Castle for planetary concern leaders.

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