London, Thanasis Gavos
THE Queen Elizabeth will not be present on Tuesday at the ceremony for the official opening of the British Parliamentary termannounced Buckingham Palace on Monday night.
It will be just the third time in the 70 years of her reign that the 96-year-old monarch will be absent from the ceremony. The last one was in 1963, when she was pregnant, as well as in 1959.
The ceremony traditionally includes the Queen’s Speech, during which the monarch reads an outline of the government program for the coming period.
This role will be taken over on Tuesday by the successor of Prince Charles of Wales.
In the announcement of the palaces it is noted that the queen “She continues to have occasional mobility problems and in consultation with her doctors she decided with hesitation that she would not attend the official State Opening of Parliament tomorrow.”
This is the latest in a series of events that Queen Elizabeth has not attended in recent months.
It was announced last October that he was suffering from a back problem, which ultimately did not allow her to attend another major annual event on her schedule, the Sunday Remembrance Ceremony at the Cenotaph.
In February she was diagnosed positive for coronavirus, manifesting symptoms of a mild cold. However, two weeks later she began reappearing in her duties either via video link or in person, such as at the memorial service for her husband Prince Philip in late March.
He did not attend the Easter service at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, but at the end of April he welcomed the President of Switzerland up close.
The Palace has conveyed the Queen’s wish to attend some of the celebrations in early June for her Platinum Jubilee, the 70th anniversary of the throne. But it is now believed that the decisions about the events he will attend are made on a case by case basis and after medical advice.
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