The cancellation of her attendance at the Glasgow climate summit suggests a more leisurely agenda for the monarch
The announcement by the spokesmen of the British crown that Elizabeth II will not travel to the Scottish city of Glasgow next Monday, to receive the many heads of State and Government who gather at the climate summit, COP26, organized by the Organization The United Nations, has confirmed the difficulties of the 95-year-old monarch to keep pace with her official agenda.
The queen already canceled a trip to Northern Ireland a week ago to attend events commemorating the centenary of the creation of the province. The next day it was learned that, after the announcement, Isabel went to the Rey Eduardo VII Hospital, where members of the royal family are treated. He spent the night there to undergo “preliminary tests”, according to his spokesmen.
Queen Elizabeth II held virtual audiences on Tuesday. /
The palace communiqués affirm that the doctors have recommended rest to the queen, who remains active. This Tuesday she was photographed inside Windsor Castle in a virtual ceremony to hand over the credentials of the new South Korean ambassador at the Court of St. James. Attendees of the climate summit will also be addressed through the screens.
The need for rest comes to him after spending two months in his private residence at Balmoral, in the Scottish Highlands. In October after his return to Windsor he resumed the monarch’s usual activities. The long isolation caused by the pandemic and the sentimental blow with the death of her husband, Felipe de Edimburgo, have marked a large part of the year.
Upcoming Platinum Jubilee
His spirit to continue with his protocol agenda seemed unquestionable, although, for the first time without having suffered a previous injury, he walked with the help of a cane in some of the 19 events that he has presided over this month. He inaugurated the parliamentary courses in the autonomies of Wales and Scotland, attended the mass of the Royal British Legion, a charity for Army veterans …
The day before going to the hospital, he had received figures from the industrial and financial world in Windsor, in an act promoted by the Government to attract investment. The monarch combines that intense public activity for a nonagenarian with frequent lunches and dinners with family and friends, and with a fondness for watching television programs until a late hour.
The cancellation of a 1,300-kilometer trip to Glasgow, where some 30,000 people from a wide range of countries will gather around the summit venue, does not cause alarm about the queen’s health. More striking is that, according to the ‘Daily Mail’, Elizabeth II has not gone out to walk with her dogs through her castle in Windsor, after the after-dinner, for a week.
The reactivation of the monarch’s protocol agenda has stopped and she and her assistants will have to decide the pace that allows her to continue with the performance of her role. In their minds is the Platinum Jubilee, an extensive program of events that celebrates, around February 22, 2022, the fulfillment of the seventy years of his reign.
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