The Queen and Liz Truss

[Dodie66]

Lovely photo of the Queen and Liz Truss today, The queen looks frail and seems to have shrunk, see the photo here. Doing well for 96 though. news.sky.com/story/liz-truss-becomes-prime-minister-of-the-uk-12691158

They aren't going to be doing major surgery on her. Just keep her comfy. Not sure what more than that she'd need.

Could be a long time for temporary? Because isn't the Castle normally held for the Monarch?

Though I suppose once Charles is King, he can decide who gets which palace despite previous norms

Apols - when you said 'full hospital facilities' I took it to mean something more than keeping comfy

No I think he will be in Buck Pal. He will also have High Grove, Clarence Hse, Sandringham and Balmoral (though I suspect the queen will give either Sandringham or Balmoral to Anne/Zara)

When does HMQ normally have her Balmoral holiday?

I doubt HMQ will leave Balmoral or Sandringham to anyone other than PC. Anna has Gatehome Park? and Zara lives on that estate.

Has HMQ purchased any new estates in her time for herself, similar to PC buying Highgrove?

He's said he doesn't like Buckingham Palace, so that'll be the offices, plus as it is now the London residence for people like the Princess Royal and the Wessexes.

So he might stay in Clarence House, or move to St James or to Windsor, and keep Sandringham for Christmas and Balmoral for summer.

Queen usually remains at Balmoral until late Sept/early Oct

Has HMQ purchased any new estates in her time for herself, similar to PC buying Highgrove?

Nope. She only personally owns Balmoral and Sandringham. She pur

She purchased Gatcombe for Anne.

as it is now the London residence for people like the Princess Royal and the Wessexes

Princess Anne's official London residence is in St James Palace.

I stand corrected, thank you!

Makes it rather less likely that Prince Charles would move there

I expect the plan for Highgrove was that it would be given to Harry, probably at a decent interval after Charles' accession. It's possible that might not now happen

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz I didn't think she's purchased anything for herself. Thanks for confirming that.

I knew she'd got Anne her estate and she'd bought the place for Andrew which they later sold. I don't remember Ed getting bought anywhere?

And Charles will ultimately inherit the Balmoral & Sandringham. I know he'd spent years looking for Highgrove which is in Wales as he thought it was silly the PoW not having a residence in Wales.

Yep I noticed that.

Highgrove is in Tetbury Gloucestershire . . .

I'm talking rubbish it's not Highgrove that's in Wales it's a much smaller property he has there Llwynywermod purchased in 2007. But I knew he'd spent years looking for a suitable place in Wales.

We don’t know whether there was no curtsey. That was just a posed still.

Daft as it sounds, I said last night to DH that the Queen was looking old now. Which of course she is, because she’s 96! But it seems to have caught up with all at once, somehow.

I will be a bit sad when she goes. It’s going to be an unsettling time with Charles taking over.

Shouldn't be anything unsettling about it Charles must have served the longest apprenticeship in world history.

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The photo unexpectedly made me feel quite emotional. She is so tiny and frail. The amount of effort it must have taken to get dressed and made up so beautifully and to stand and smile for this moment. At the age of 96.

The fact she has since had to cancel a privy council zoom meeting shows the toll this takes. These small acts we all take for granted require Herculean effort.

She is just wearing out, visibly. I hope she does die in her sleep, rather than of pneumonia after a fall, or covid like my mum, or lingering after a stroke.

I love how she's always so smiley, despite the effort it must take to discharge her duties.

I'm 45 years younger than her and getting grumpier by the day.

That's what will make it so unsettling though. For literally generations, she's been the queen - the one on the money, on the stamps, opening Parliament, all of those things that we don't necessarily notice, but which form part of the background to life. There's only one member of my family who'd remember her not being the queen, and she's 94 herself! All the rest of us, three generations now, have only known the queen. There's been continuity for decades and then suddenly we'll be singing the national anthem differently, and all those other things will change too - maybe not overnight, but they will. Plus there will I'm sure be calls for the monarchy to be abolished (which I can sympathise with) - I don't think they'll succeed, but they'll be there. It's going to unsettle people more that they expect I think - not because of any deep love for the woman, but because she's just always been there in the background. And she'll be gone.

I agree. I rather suspect that’s why Harry has been over, to say goodbye. I know they’re saying he won’t be seeing her, but they’re not exactly the most honest of people, and it could quell any rumours.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62836057

That's really not sounding good.

I do think she may well have had a cannula in her hand. The makeup artist probably did a good job yesterday to make her look OK for the photos.