Queen Elizabeth II participated in the first engagements after being forced to cancel participation in Remembrance Day over the weekend after turning her back.
“His Majesty received General Sir Nicholas Carter at Windsor Castle today after resigning his appointment as Chief of Defense Staff,” he said with Buckingam Palace on Wednesday.
Wearing an orange, green and white floral dress, the 95-year-old monarch rose to greet the outgoing general in the Oak Room in Windsor Castle.
The Queen warmly welcomed the head of the armed forces as he entered the room, at the same moment one of his dogs ran up to him curiously. After the two shook hands, the monarch said it was “very sad” that he was leaving, then they started talking.
Family photographs of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke of Sussex, as well as Princess Beatrice and Eugenie could be seen on display at the back of the room, where the monarch takes care of most of the business while living in Windsor.
The military hearing took place three days after the palace revealed her regret at having lost the honor at the Cenotaph in central London. Prince Charles, who turned 73 on Sunday, laid a wreath at the war memorial in the Queen’s name, as in other years.
The Queen’s decision to forfeit the honor has nothing to do with her doctor’s recent advice to rest, a source told previously to CNN.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the Queen was “very well” when he saw her last week.
The monarch was forced to miss several appointments last week. She attended her last event in person on October 19, when she hosted a reception for business leaders in Windsor ahead of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow. The next day, the Queen abruptly canceled a trip to Northern Ireland and spent the night in a hospital in what a spokesperson described at the time as “preliminary investigations”.
Since then, and following his doctor’s orders, the Royal House has significantly decreased its appointments. She has mostly been resting in Windsor, performing some light tasks by video or phone.
She managed, however, to spend a long-planned weekend, an actual source told the CNN. Her mini-vacation had been in the plans for a long time, with a doctor giving her the go-ahead to go to Sandringham by helicopter, according to The Mirror. She was traveling to her country estate to make preparations to welcome her family for Christmas, the report added.
Before that, Elizabeth was seen driving alone around her Windsor estate, in what was a very reassuring appearance for anyone accompanying the royal family.
“Going forward, especially as we roll into winter with Covid, we’ll see the Queen make more phone calls at Zoom, fewer face-to-face meetings,” the historian and royal expert at CNN Kate Williams said earlier. “But I think once the winter is over, she’ll be eager to get up, get back to meeting people. It’s just whether or not the doctors will agree with it.”
Reference: CNN Brasil
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