The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have travelled to Scotland amid rumours that The Queen’s health is deteriorating.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were scheduled to attend the Wellchild Awards in London this evening, but their presence has been cancelled.
The prince was set to deliver a speech at tonight’s award event, which recognizes the bravery of chronically sick youngsters.
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall arrived at Balmoral by helicopter from their Scottish property Birkhall, and are presently with The Queen, as is Princess Anne.
An aircraft carrying seven Royal household members – Prince William, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward, and the Countess of Wessex – has reached Aberdeen.
During their visit from California this week, Harry and Meghan were not anticipated to see any other members of the Royal Family. It is unknown how they will get to Scotland.
The Duchess of Cambridge and her three kids are in Windsor. She was observed driving to pick up George, Charlotte, and Louis from their new school after their first full day.
Following additional review this morning, The Queen’s physicians are worried about Her Majesty’s health and have suggested she stay under medical observation, a royal spokesman said. The Queen is still at home and at Balmoral.
It compels them to assume the situation is far more serious than they’ve been informed, said royal biographer Nigel Cawthorne.
Any comment concerning the Queen’s health is considered unusual and signals a severe issue. It’s also crucial that her entire close family is either with her or on their way to her.
Concerned Britons have already congregated outside the gates of Balmoral to pray and pay their respects to Her Majesty.
The new Prime Minister Liz Truss was sent a note in the Commons minutes before the announcement, notifying her of the development as she was unveiling her intentions to cap energy rates for the next two years.
The Prime Minister, who was sworn in by The Queen on Tuesday at Balmoral, tweeted, the whole country will be extremely worried by the news from Buckingham Palace this lunchtime.At this time, her thoughts and the thoughts of individuals all around the United Kingdom – are with Her Majesty The Queen and her family.
Along with the rest of the country, he is profoundly concerned by the news from Buckingham Palace this afternoon, Labour leader Keir Starmer said. His sympathies are with Her Majesty the Queen and her family at this time, and he join everybody else in wishing her a speedy recovery.
On the advice of physicians, the Queen was compelled to delay a Privy Council meeting yesterday. The 96-year-old queen has been ordered to relax after a full day on Tuesday that included greeting Boris Johnson and Liz Truss at Balmoral, as well as other minor tasks.
And today, Buckingham Palace announced that physicians were sent to Balmoral and raised the alarm this morning.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has stated that the ‘national prayers’ are with the Queen, the head of the Church of England. His prayers, and those of the (Church of England) and the country, are with Her Majesty The Queen today, Justin Welby tweeted.
May the presence of God support and comfort Her Majesty, her family, and those who care for her at Balmoral.
She was supposed to hold the Privy Council almost last evening, at which the new Prime Minister would have taken her oath as First Lord of the Treasury and Cabinet ministers would have been sworn in and declared privy counsellors, assuming they had not previously been appointed as such.
This lunchtime, there had been a flurry of activity in the Commons as worries about the Queen were addressed with the Prime Minister. Nadhim Zahawi had given her a note, which she had read and filed.
During the energy debate, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle interrupted SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford’s speech to tell MPs that he understands he speak for the entire House when he say that they send their best wishes to Her Majesty the Queen and that she and the royal family are in their thoughts and prayers at this time. If there is anything else, they will notify the House accordingly, he continued.
Following the revelation of the Queen’s health problems, the royal family’s website seemed to collapse. The error message ‘Gateway time-out’ came on the screen.
The revelation regarding the Queen’s health has left SNP Westminster Leader Ian Blackford “disheartened.”
In the energy discussion, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle stopped Mr Blackford’s remarks to express the House’s best wishes to the Queen.
Mr Blackford resumed his statement in the Commons, saying, he is sure on behalf of all colleagues, they’re grieved to hear the news that has been made, and their thoughts and prayers will be with Her Majesty the Queen and indeed with the royal family.
Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, stated, all of them are deeply worried by news about Her Majesty’s health. At this time, her thoughts and prayers are with the Queen and the entire royal family.
It follows a spate of health issues for the increasingly fragile royal, who was urged not to go to London this week from her Highland retreat to accept the resignation of her outgoing Prime Minister and install Miss Truss.
The Queen appointed a Prime Minister at Balmoral for the first time in her 70-year reign.
Instead of having the Queen, who has been suffering from intermittent mobility issues since October, go back from Scotland, the two MPs drove the 1,000-mile round trip from London.
Buckingham Palace said there would be no constitutional concerns with the rescheduled procedures, and that the choice to urge Her Majesty to rest did not include a hospital stay.
However, the choice to reschedule the virtual meeting would undoubtedly raise further concerns about the Queen’s health.
After a hard day yesterday, Her Majesty has this afternoon followed physicians’ advice to rest,’ a palace official said last night.
This implies that the Privy Council meeting scheduled for this evening will be rescheduled.’
During their European tour this month, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were not expected to pay a visit to the Queen.
They were in Dusseldorf, Germany, yesterday to commemorate a year before the next Invictus Games, when they were welcomed by ecstatic throngs of royalist fans, and today’s itinerary was scheduled to be focused on the Wellchild Awards.
Since 2007, the Duke has been a patron of Wellchild.
The journey sparked anticipation regarding whether the pair might see other members of the Royal Family, including Harry’s dad, Prince Charles, and brother, Prince William.
According to a palace source, the two brothers had only seen each other twice in the previous year.
The throne’s heir Later in the summer, Charles was believed to have made frequent morning visits to see his mom as she struggled with her mobility, with the unscheduled visits regarded exceedingly uncommon.
Last weekend, the Queen did not attend the annual Braemar Gathering highland games, which she regularly visits.
During her Platinum Jubilee festivities, the Queen only visited Buckingham Palace twice: once for her Trooping the Colour balcony appearance and once for a post-pageant finale.
In October, she quietly spent a night in hospital for testing and was instructed by physicians to rest for three months, skipping the Remembrance Sunday Cenotaph ceremony and the Cop26 climate change negotiations.
Covid was apprehended by the Queen in February.
She said the infection left her ‘very fatigued and drained’ after she had minor cold-like symptoms.
The Queen is the only monarch in the United Kingdom to have enjoyed a Platinum Jubilee.
Her rule lasted from the postwar years into a new millennium and a drastically transformed twenty-first century.
In her golden years, she has been organizing her affairs, using her Jubilee speech to support her daughter-in-law, the Duchess of Cornwall, a former royal mistress, as a future queen to be crowned with the Prince of Wales when he becomes king.
During her Jubilee year, she also encountered a string of royal snafus.
She stripped her son, the Duke of York, of his military responsibilities, with Andrew foregoing his HRH title before consenting to pay millions to resolve a civil sexual assault complaint.
The Duke of Edinburgh, to whom she had been married for 73 years, died in April 2021.
