After canceling several engagements due to health problems in recent months, Queen Elizabeth II went to an event on Sunday night (15) that marked the first celebration of her Platinum Jubilee and had in the cast stars such as Hollywood actor Tom Cruise and British actress Helen Mirren.
Wearing a gray shawl, the 96-year-old monarch stepped out of her Range Rover to cheers from the crowd and walked with the help of a cane to accompany the equestrian show “A Gallop Through History”, which features 500 horses and 1,300 artists.
The event, at Windsor Castle, featured singers such as Gregory Porter and a performance by Cruise.
“She’s a woman I admire a lot,” the actor said before the event. “I think she is someone who has tremendous dignity and I admire her devotion. What she achieved was historic.”
The show is part of the Windsor Horse Show, which the Queen visited on Friday, and anticipates the grand jubilee celebrations for her seven-decade reign, scheduled for June 2-5, across the UK. .
Elizabeth has only been seen in public on a few occasions after she spent a night in hospital last October for an unspecified illness, being advised by her doctors to rest. It was her first hospitalization since 2013. Since then, mobility problems have led the monarch to cancel her presence at major events.
At the end of February, the diagnosis of Covid-19 again put the queen’s commitments on hold for about ten days. According to Buckingham Palace, she had only mild symptoms of the disease. In the announcement of the diagnosis, the forecast was that the head of the crown would keep a light schedule, but it was necessary to postpone the scheduled events as the symptoms persisted.
On May 10, she missed the traditional “throne speech” in Parliament, which she had not participated in on two occasions during her 70-year reign, the last of which was in 1963. For the first time, the Queen was replaced in the act. by Prince Charles, the 73-year-old heir, an important step in the progressive transition from monarchical functions.
Commentator on Sunday’s equestrian show, Omid Djalili, joked and thanked the Queen for choosing the event, rather than the opening of the parliamentary year, for her first public appearance since March 29.
