The Queen is under 'medical supervision'

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The Queen is under medical supervision at Balmoral after doctors became concerned for her health, Buckingham Palace says.

"Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen's doctors are concerned for Her Majesty's health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision," they said in a statement.

"The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral."

Her immediate family has been informed.

The announcement comes after the Queen, 96, pulled out of a virtual Privy Council on Wednesday, with doctors advising her to rest.

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We very much hope she is okay, it made me feel sad to read this. I think the line her immediate family have been informed was a worrying line.

Not necessarily, if you're older and your skin is thin. My grandma bruises like that just from knocking against things — she says it doesn't hurt and half the time she doesn't know she's done it until it bruises.

Not at all. My 7yo learnt about The Queen and her reign at school last year. She also thoroughly adored the Jubilee celebrations, and in the summer holidays we visited Buckingham Palace, so my child will definitely be upset by the death of The Queen

I'm nearly certain that is not how death works but I do like the way you think! 😆

The press is also thinking it’s going to happen some time soon. 😭 I am watching Sky as I want to hear a soft, female voice right now.

I personally will be devastated when she dies. I met her only once in my lifetime. She to me is the very epitome of strength, grace, steadfastness and her resolute determination to serve our country and the commonwealth can not be compared.
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The Queen is the most iconic woman in the whole world.
She needs no introduction, and everyone on the planet knows who she is.
There is no one that compares to her, no one.
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Our wonderful Queen is dying, and I am feeling truly devastated

Bloody hell. I haven't read this much melodrama since I last picked up a Mills and Boon.

I'll only know this Queen and Charles.
By the time they get to George , who knows ?
At least she was able to enjoy her jubilee this year. Well, some of it

She also appears to prefer Balmoral to any of her other residences. It's where she goes on holiday and it's where she brought the boys when Princess Diana died.

Breaking news is Charles, Camilla and William are all on their way to Balmoral! Doesn't sound good!

I was shocked at the pm photos.

I'm not surprised about the news today. my grandmothers and grandfathers had hands like that very shortly before they died. black hands of death the nurses called it.

I will be sad, she was such a constant 'always there'.

I'm trying to hold back on saying that shaking hands with a certain new PM might finish anyone off.

I knew it was Prince Louis's first day because it was on the news earlier.

The queen has been in our lives forever. Of course this is sad.

Is she really going to leave us now? Cant it just be her going through a rough patch?

Well said, me too 🤗

Wow, there are some strange comments on here!

Coronation/bank holiday should boost the economy but even if the Queen was to die today the coronation wouldn’t be until summer at the earliest.

She's 96. She's frail. She's the Queen. Doctors will give her thousands of times more attention than any other frail 96 year old (except maybe David Attenborough, who'd get hundreds of times more attention).

I am sure she'll be with us for a while yet. I'd like to think she'd make 100, but at least she made her Platinum jubilee.

NovaDeltas · Today 12:48
I don't understand how anyone can 'be sad' about a stranger so distant they may as well be a character in a book.

NovaDeltas - I will be very sad indeed when the Queen dies. She's always been there in the background throughout my life (I'm late 50s) as a constant. Personally, I admire the way she's done the job and I'm in awe of her devotion to duty at the age of 96 and a half. I will miss her when she's gone - I feel similarly about David Attenborough, who is exactly the same age. He's a wise and clever man and we seem to be surrounded by idiots these days.

I'm a mild monarchist who would like to see the institution pruned down to something more akin to the Scandinavian model after the Queen's death. I really hope that some of the cruder folk on here will keep their charmless insults to themselves if she is in fact on the way out!

I feel quite saddened by this. As well as being an exemplary and committed monarch she is also someone's mother/grandma/aunt/etc.

HM has lived her life in the full glare of the public eye and had done so with grace without ever putting a foot wrong, despite what her family have given her to deal with. That's quite something.

It’s sad when anyone elderly and ill. It must be very scary. My MIL just had a birthday. She is very old and everyone was gushing on to her about how old she was and what a great life she had lived. I’m pretty sure she hated her birthday. She doesn’t want to think about how old she is.

The problem with the Queen being elderly and ill isn’t to do with her but to do with the revolting simpering that goes on with politicians, reporters and other famous people. It’s nauseating and it’s weird. The public declarations may be sincere but they are misplaced and over the top.

The Royal family have no place in modern society. When the Queen dies I’m not looking forward to all the nonsense that’s going to happen. I’ll have to have a media ban for a few weeks.

I agree with this too.

*She to me is the very epitome of strength, grace, steadfastness and her resolute determination to serve our country and the commonwealth can not be compared.

The Queen is the most iconic woman in the whole world.
She needs no introduction, and everyone on the planet knows who she is.
There is no one that compares to her, no one.*

Totally agree. She's woven into the fabric of our society and the lives of most of us. . The thought of there being no Queen Elizabeth II is awful and almost impossible to imagine. I feel very shaken and tearful.

Millions of people feel like this - and are entitled to do so. It's not for the anti-royalists to negate how we feel or demand explanations.

With the best will in the world, it won't be a massive shock though will it?

I was in bits when Dumbledore died <spoiler alert> !!!!!