Buckingham Palace had said on Wednesday morning that she pulled out of a planned engagement in Northern Ireland and had been advised to rest on medical advice.
But royal officials were forced to confirm late Thursday that she had in fact had"some preliminary investigations" in hospital on Wednesday, and stayed overnight after The Sun newspaper broke the news.
She stayed overnight for"practical reasons", said to be because it was too late to make the 42-kilometer trip back to Windsor.AFP/File | Glyn KIRK Royal correspondents complained that palace officials had not told the whole story about why the Queen withdrew from a planned engagement in Northern Ireland earlier this week"There's a concern to maintain the dignity of the office," Hardman said, adding officials had likely feared"huge banks of cameras and 24-hour news setting up outside the hospital".
"We must hope that we can rely on what the palace is now telling us," he added, calling assurances that the queen was in good spirits"a handy phrase that the palace dusts off at moments such as this"."Royal sources had been keen to encourage the impression that she had just overdone it but may struggle to convince the public now," he noted.Queen Elizabeth II is head of state in the UK and 15 other realms around the world, including Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
The monarch, who still rides and drives on her private estates, has been especially active since returning from her remote Balmoral estate in northeast Scotland at the start of October.
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