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Queen Elizabeth II Tests Positive for Covid-19
Queen Elizabeth II will stay nether the watchful oculus of her physicians for the foreseeable future.
Following an valuation connected Sept. 8, Buckingham Palace shared successful a connection that doctors are "concerned" for the 96-year-old monarch's wellness and "have recommended she stay nether aesculapian supervision."
According to the statement, the Queen, who has been experiencing mobility problems in caller months, remains "comfortable" and astatine her Balmoral Castle residence.
This guidance from doctors comes aft a engaged week for the royal, which included appointing Liz Truss arsenic the caller Prime Minister connected Sept. 6.
The next day, the Queen—following doctor's orders—postponed a gathering of her virtual Privy Council advisers.
"After a afloat time yesterday, Her Majesty has this day accepted doctors' proposal to rest," the Palace said successful a connection connected Sept. 7. "This means that the Privy Council gathering that had been owed to instrumentality spot this evening volition beryllium rearranged."
After the Palace's connection astir the Queen's wellness connected Sept. 8, Truss sent a connection to the royal family.
"The full state volition beryllium profoundly acrophobic by the quality from Buckingham Palace this lunchtime," she tweeted. "My thoughts - and the thoughts of radical crossed our United Kingdom - are with Her Majesty The Queen and her household astatine this time."
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The Queen's wellness has made headlines implicit the past year, with concerns increasing during her Platinum Jubilee celebrations successful June.
In fact, after the archetypal time of celebrations connected June 1, she experienced "some discomfort," the Palace said astatine the time, leading her to miss the National Service of Thanksgiving astatine St. Paul's Cathedral connected June 3.
"Her Majesty with large reluctance has concluded that she volition not attend," the connection read. "The Queen is looking guardant to participating successful tonight's Beacon lighting lawsuit astatine Windsor Castle and would similar to convey each those who made contiguous specified a memorable occasion."
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