Queen sprains back, won't attend Remembrance Sunday event

LONDON – Queen Elizabeth II has sprained her backmost and volition not be the Remembrance Sunday work successful cardinal London to retrieve Britain’s warfare dead, Buckingham Palace said Sunday.

The queen decided “with large regret” that she cannot be the service, and was “disappointed” to miss the event, officials successful a statement. The work had been expected to beryllium the 95-year-old monarch’s archetypal nationalist quality aft canceling events successful caller weeks connected doctors’ advice.

“As successful erstwhile years, a wreath volition beryllium laid connected Her Majesty’s behalf by The Prince of Wales," the connection said. Other members of the royal household volition beryllium contiguous arsenic planned.

Remembrance Sunday is 1 of the astir important events connected the calendar for the queen, who served successful World War II arsenic an service driver.

Buckingham Palace officials said connected Thursday that she planned to ticker the ceremonial astatine the Cenotaph memorial successful cardinal London from a balcony, arsenic she has for respective years.

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The queen spent a nighttime successful a London infirmary past period aft being admitted for tests. On Oct. 29, the palace said she had been told to remainder for 2 weeks. She canceled plans to be the U.N. clime acme successful Glasgow, Scotland, but sent a video message.

The queen has continued to enactment from home, doing desk-based duties, during her play of rest. She has spent astir of the clip astatine Windsor Castle, westbound of London, and made a play sojourn to Sandringham, the royal family’s eastbound England estate.

Britain’s longest-lived and longest-reigning monarch, Elizabeth is owed to observe her Platinum Jubilee — 70 years connected the throne — adjacent year.

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