Hours before his death was announced, doctors at the Queen isabel II96, concerned about her health, had recommended this Thursday that she be placed under medical supervision at her Scottish castle in Balmoral, where her children and grandchildren went among the “deep concern” of the country.
“Following further assessment this morning, the Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended that she remain under medical surveillance,” Buckingham Palace said. “The queen continues to feel comfortable and she will stay at Balmoral,” where she usually spends the late summers, she added in a brief statement.
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“The palace does not issue bulletins about the queen’s health unless it is significantroyal commentator Robert Hardman told the BBC.
The health of the long-lived monarch has been a matter of growing concern since last October it was known that it had happened one night hospitalized to undergo medical “tests” whose nature was never specified.
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Since then has reduced his schedule very considerablyher appearances in public are increasingly scarce and in them she is often seen walking with difficulty aided by a cane.
In recent years, Elizabeth II has had to weather the pandemicshe contracted a Covid that left her very tired-, the devastating death of her husband Felipe – who died in April 2021 at almost 100 years old – and the various crises of the royal family.
In June, the United Kingdom celebrated in style the Platinum Jubilee, the 70th anniversary of the accession to the throne of Elizabeth II, who increasingly delegates more official functions to Prince Charles.
On Tuesday, the monarch had received at Balmoral the resigning Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his successor at the head of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, whom she commissioned to form a government as the new leader of the parliamentary majority.
An image of the act released by Buckingham Palace, in which the monarch was seen shaking hands with Truss, caused concern because the queen’s hand was unusually bruised.
For the first time in her long tenure Elizabeth II had decided to stay at Balmoral rather than return to London, where the transition usually takes place, due to her health problems.
On Wednesday night, the royal house had announced that the monarch decided to postpone an online event after her doctors advised her to rest.
Elizabeth II was virtually absent from her platinum jubilee celebrations, appearing only twice briefly on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to greet the tens of thousands of people gathered there.
However, a few weeks later he took part in various public events in Scotland, appearing smiling and carrying a cane at an armed forces parade in Edinburgh in late June.