Queen to miss Rememberance Day service

[KenAdams]

As she has apparently sprained her back.

I do wish the Palace would be honest about her health (without giving details) rather than setting her up to attend events that they know she won't be at. It can't be good for her, they should just say she's out for a while, which at her age would be completely understandable.

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My mum is 80 and remembers her class being taken into central London on Coronation Day to see the Queen go past in her carriage.

Major news outlets have had the Queen's obituary ready to go for the past 20 years. In my first job as a reporter on a newspaper in the early 2000s there was a file with obituaries and background pieces for Prince Philip and the Queen that got updated frequently.

We won't have her for much longer, I feel.

@52andblue

I imagine she must be quite ill to miss Remembrance Sunday. I wish her well.

I couldn't help the feeling in Church this morning if we would ever be singing God Save the Queen again, in the pictures I saw of Charles at the Cenotaph he looked very drawn.

I know someone who works for one of the major TV news outlets and they say that her obituary is being updated daily

An obituary is major events in the person’s life, it doesn’t need updating daily! It would have been updated a few times this year to include Phillip’s death, and updates to the number of great grandchildren as they’ve arrived. What could they have changed yesterday that Friday’s version didn’t cover.
Unless you mean the date of death is updated daily just in case, which seems like a massive waste of time and can probably be left until it’s happened.

The Queen has been noticeably walking slower, and stooping a bit of late,and using a walking stick, much the same as many elderly people do. Being the Queen, she has lots of medical consultants and advisers around, who will tell her to rest, and take it easy at her age.. I don't think she has ever been the type of person, to just give up on things, but best that she takes advice on any health matters.. People may be concerned, that she might trip up getting out of the car or walking up some steps, etc, and just keel over with a back or hip complaint, and that would be a quite disastrous scene to witness, as in being the Queen.

Charlies looked incredibly tearful when we lay the wreath and also last night at the Royal Albert Hall. I thought Boris
also looked very worried last night too.

I fear she may not be well at all... but she's 95...

@SickAndTiredAgain

I thought Camilla looked 'different' somehow - missed the singing.

She did seem a bit shakey.

She is 74. Not terribly old by today’s standards (only 8 years past retirement age for example), particularly for someone who will always have had great healthcare etc, but certainly not young enough for health issues to be surprising.
I’m not saying she is ill of course, but I think with the queen still active at 95 (until very recently), it’s easy to forget that Charles and Camilla are in their mid 70s.

Princess Anne is also in her 70s and she looked very upright and fit when she took her wreath up. Maybe genes, her mother, father and grandmother all long lived, grandfather had cancer I think. Not sure about Prince Philips father but I do remember his mother at some events and she seemed very old but back then anyone over 30 looked old to me.

All major news outlets will have prepared basic obituaries for most high profile public figures - former world leaders, royalty, etc. How else do you think they role out such detailed pieces within hours of the deaths being announced?

I’m sure when it comes to some high profile figures (thinking more like film stars/athletes, etc) the press are also tipped off by family/management when they are ill so that obituaries can be updated/prepared.

The queen wasn’t the queen at birth, her father was king until she was in her twenties

For that matter she wasn't even heir until she was 12 (?), since that's when Edward abdicated and pitched her father into the job

Your mother must be older than the Queen to remember this?

No, just younger.

Elizabeth became Queen in 1953, so I doubt anyone born later than 1950 would remember King George at all, and I guess many of those born 1945-1949 wouldn't remember that much.

Strange to think that HMQ is the 4th monarch during DMum's lifetime - she was primary school age when the Abdication happened.

I think Prince Charles and his siblings would feel solemn today, the first Remembrance service since their father died. He served during the war and it would be triggering.

Not terribly old by today’s standards (only 8 years past retirement age for example), particularly for someone who will always have had great healthcare etc, but certainly not young enough for health issues to be surprising.

Camilla was a heavy smoker for many years, too.

The Press Association has a repository of biographies and articles for major figures, which is what most news outlets use. They go out on the wire within minutes sometimes of a major figure dying. When Nelson Mandela died, I was on duty and there was enough to fill a double-page spread within 15 minutes.

@ancientgran oh yes, I didn’t mean everyone in their 70s was old and frail or anything like that! Maybe it’s just me, but I find it easy to forget that Charles, Anna and Camilla are in their 70s. Especially with Edward being so much younger as well (57).

I thought Boris also looked very worried last night too Worried about himself probably, since he's in the shit politically. Doesn't seem to me like the kind of man who worries about other people particularly.

Yes, Anne is also in her 70s, but looking very healthy.

I thought exactly the same about Charles and how upset he looked.

[quote SickAndTiredAgain]@ancientgran oh yes, I didn’t mean everyone in their 70s was old and frail or anything like that! Maybe it’s just me, but I find it easy to forget that Charles, Anna and Camilla are in their 70s. Especially with Edward being so much younger as well (57).[/quote]
No I didn't think you meant that, I was just struck that Anne looked very fit and well.

Weird to think that she's been Queen for so long and the only monarch most of us have known, when in the 1930s there were three in quick succession!

My mum remembers George V dying, Edward VII abdicating, then George VI's coronation.

She's been what we'd describe as "very old" for fifteen years.

I don't think she's long for this world. I hope the British public and media are dignified when it happens fat chance

Alexander Johnson worries about no one but himself!

This also makes me realise how much history the queen has lived through. Such a different world from when she was crowned.

She's declined rapidly since losing her husband. She's under immense pressure, maintaining that role whilst grieving such a colossal loss. Cliche, but she's only human.

DH twinged his back yesterday trying to hang a huge mirror, maybe that's what she was doing too... Or maybe she's just 95

I’ve hardly been able to move after losing my balance putting my pants on a few days ago. It was the smallest of stumbles just a few inches to the right but I’m extremely sore. I’m 63 and boy have I felt this.