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KenAdams · 2021-11-14T09:22:25+00:00

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. [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59280608]]

BruiserWoods · 14/11/2021 09:45

I don't get what part of the back sprain announcement is unacceptable? Do you think bits don't ache here and there at 95?

It's not like being 55 when you need a doctor's note specifying the REASON that you're not up to the job ahead.

I'm Irish so I don't have any sense of being owed the truth about the queen! but would the British public really object to an announcement to say Queen is reposing on chaise longue at balmoral half- watching season two of after life. she likes it.

She is 95 and will be phoning it in for a bit. Because everything hurts a bit at this point.

Echobelly · 14/11/2021 09:46

I'm finding it very tedious to 'treated' by the media to this blow by blow account of the queen basically heading towards the end like anyone her age. My grandfather was born the same year and died 3 years ago and even though he was in basically good health for his age he was not very able to go out at all in his final years, he really couldn't be sure from one day to the next he if he could leave home. Seems a bit unfair for anyone to expect anything of the queen at this age.

JudgeRindersMinder · 14/11/2021 09:48

@LawnFever

I agree, she’s a very elderly woman, I think she should just put her feet up tbh and stop being expected to do all these things, especially like you say when she’s often just going to have to cancel.

I think a lot of that expectation is what she puts on herself. She is totally duty led.

I do have a horrible feeling that she’s on a decline, hardly unusual at 95 though, and it’s not unusual when one half of an elderly couple dies for the other to follow within 12 months…. I don’t know that I’m ready for it!

52andblue · 14/11/2021 09:51

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

AutumnAlmanack · 14/11/2021 09:52

@JudgeRindersMinder - I agree, it will be a terrible shock for the country when she does go, even if some people pretend to be quite nonchalant about it. It will be Diana all over again X 10, I think.

SnottyLottie · 14/11/2021 09:53

As I stated on another thread, if you read between the lines of what has been reported over the past few weeks, I suspect she has had a fall and is now a little shaky on her feet (which isn’t unusual for a woman of her age).

It feels like she should retire from public life and set up a regent to act on her behalf, but she seems very dedicated to her role and I think she would resist it to the best of her abilities.

Toddlerteaplease · 14/11/2021 09:53

@pictish

“I’m a big fan of HMQ and I’m concerned that something is very wrong with her health.”

She is 95. For goodness sake, there will be lots wrong with her health. She’s very old now.

Actually the extreme elderly, often don't have many underlying issues. And are fairly healthy. That's how they get to that age in the first place.

CaveMum · 14/11/2021 09:55

The “bad back” cover is used regularly, I seem to recall they used it for Sir Terry Wogan to cover his absence from Children in Need a few months before he died from cancer,. It’s an “easy” one as you can’t prove/disprove it.

Totally agree with other posters, she’s an elderly lady who recently lost her dearly loved husband. The public are not stupid.

HarrisonStickle · 14/11/2021 09:55

@SnarkyBag

She’s a 95 year old woman who not long lost her husband. Do the powers that be really think the nation wouldn’t understand her simply not being up to all the events anymore?

All this cloak and dagger, silly lies does nothing to make the royal family look credible anymore. I used to be quite a supporter of the royal family but now I find it all quite tiresome.

I agree.

They don't even need to mention an illness or tiredness or her back. She's 95, we know that means she can't be as active as she was and that she's likely to pass away at some point in the near future.

I think we can all accept her active, in the spotlight role, is now only for very occasional times or not at all.

Toddlerteaplease · 14/11/2021 09:56

I really don't think there is a cover up.

WinterFirTree · 14/11/2021 09:57

@BruiserWoods

I don't get what part of the back sprain announcement is unacceptable? Do you think bits don't ache here and there at 95?

It's not like being 55 when you need a doctor's note specifying the REASON that you're not up to the job ahead.

I'm Irish so I don't have any sense of being owed the truth about the queen! but would the British public really object to an announcement to say Queen is reposing on chaise longue at balmoral half- watching season two of after life. she likes it.

She is 95 and will be phoning it in for a bit. Because everything hurts a bit at this point.

I hope that is what she is doing. With martinis on tap and some of those pink truffles you get from Waitrose.

ancientgran · 14/11/2021 10:04

@DobbyTheHouseElk

I agree. I don’t believe she’s sprained her back. Seems very suspicious. We have been told she was helicoptered to Sandringham to prepare for Christmas. I wonder where she actually is.

I’m a big fan of HMQ and I’m concerned that something is very wrong with her health.

It's perfectly possible she's sprained her back. We get more vulnerable to that sort of thing as we age and her back is definitely not as straight as it was.

521Jeanie · 14/11/2021 10:04

She's REALLY old. People do live into their 100s, but most 95 year olds are not long for this world.
What was stupid was saying last week that she would attend, and now having to backtrack and saying she won't. They should cancel any future lone engagements so she doesn't let people down and only have her do things when she's coming with another member of the RF who can take it on alone as need be. I do know that this particular event is very important to her though, so she will be sorry to have to miss it.

Switch82 · 14/11/2021 10:06

My DH grandmother and my great grandmother’s were well into their 90s when they passed away and they were I would say really quite with it and mobile until the last 2-3 months before they passed away. Then it was like a culmination of small strokes and quite a quick decline in their physical health. My grandfather was 90 when he passed away - digging in his garden. Sat down. Must have had a heart attack and died.

With one of my great grandmothers when my great grandfather her DH died - that was the start of her mental and physical decline.

Itsjustrenee · 14/11/2021 10:07

She’s 95 for goodness sake. She’s going to go sometime soon. It will come to us all in the end. If we’re lucky we’ll live as long as her. The speculation and hysteria is ridiculous.

She should retire and enjoy what time she has left with her family and animals.

Hospedia · 14/11/2021 10:08

Has anyone asked Gibbo? Because I won't believe a word of any Queen announcements until he posts a screenshot of the group chat.

In all seriousness though, she's 95 and she's recently lost her husband so is probably feeling ground down both emotionally and physically. I don't think the public has the right to know anything about her health as this is private and its up to her whether to share details or not, just the same as any other person.

PriamFarrl · 14/11/2021 10:09

@Spaghettio

I am thinking from the other side of this. I presumed she was saying she wanted to work but was being advised against it. She doesn't strike me as a person who will happily stop working.

I think she rested for the last few weeks on the proviso that she could attend Remembrance Day, however has found this morning that she's not up to it. I don't think the "palace" are forcing her to work. I think they're forcing her to rest!

I agree. Not that I know her of course but I get the feeling that attending Remembrance Day is very important to her.

SickAndTiredAgain · 14/11/2021 10:09

They don't even need to mention an illness or tiredness or her back. She's 95

They have to say something, because otherwise, if they don’t give a reason, you’ll get “oooh they’ve not given a reason, maybe she’s dead” from people.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 14/11/2021 10:09

Surely you can all read between the lines?

Yes, of course
Even Philip attended the event in his last year, though he was clearly leaning against the wall, so it's likely the "big announcement" will follow before very long

521Jeanie · 14/11/2021 10:09

I'm be very sorry if Boris Johnson is the one who gets to lead the county in mourning when the inevitable happens. How far this country has fallen.

And will he brush his hair even for that?

Hospedia · 14/11/2021 10:10

If she does have some sort of major and/or terminal diagnosis, as I've seen speculated pretty much everywhere, then I can well understand why she wouldn't share it. Social media is populated by vultures and there would be a continuous death-watch going on like when Phillip was unwell but a million times worse.

BingBongToTheMoon · 14/11/2021 10:11

@ItsSnowJokes

I know someone who works for one of the major TV news outlets and they say that her obituary is being updated daily, they expect the news of her passing almost every day. Its to be expected really at 95, but will be a very sad loss to me. We have never known anyone else as our monarch.

They write and rewrite the Royals obituaries all the time. The guards and horses also practice their funerals once a month as well. Doesn’t mean anything sinister is about to occur, but they need to be prepared.

SickAndTiredAgain · 14/11/2021 10:11

@521Jeanie

I'm be very sorry if Boris Johnson is the one who gets to lead the county in mourning when the inevitable happens. How far this country has fallen.

And will he brush his hair even for that?

Oh god just imagine the rambling speech 🤦🏻‍♀️

Ricetwisty · 14/11/2021 10:11

Perhaps she wants it to be put out there that she's attending stuff, I don't know, she has a fair bit of control over what's released via the comms team- in which case fair enough. I don't think we are owed the truth necessarily if she doesn't want that, she's done an incredible duty to this country and putting her duties first, if she wants a bit of privacy now then fair enough. I mean what are people going to do anyway if they say she's really poorly, start ironing their black suits?

Malibuismysecrethome · 14/11/2021 10:12

Didn’t HM take a tumble from her horse recently.
Perfectly possible to have hurt her back and it being worsened by her soldering on and it’s now a bigger problem. I believe that she has hurt her back. If she’s fractured it it’s agonising.