Fear for the QUEEN! How bad is Queen Elizabeth – Palace seems to be hiding something!
Confusion over Queen Elizabeth II’s health after hospitalization! How ill is the Queen really – many think it is much more serious than assumed!
How is the Queen?
Queen Elizabeth spent a night in hospital on Wednesday for “some preliminary tests”.
This came after she cancelled a planned engagement in Northern Ireland and was ordered to rest on medical advice. Britain’s Press Association news agency reported that the hospital stay was not initially disclosed as it was expected to be brief and to protect her privacy. Questions were raised Friday about the health of 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth II after she underwent examinations and spent a night in hospital, although the royal government said she was resting at home.
Suddenly everything is very different
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Buckingham Palace said Wednesday morning that the queen had cancelled a planned engagement in Northern Ireland and had been advised to rest on medical advice.
However, late Thursday royal officials acknowledged that she had indeed had “some preliminary tests” in hospital on Wednesday and stayed overnight after The Sun newspaper broke the news.
She returned from King Edward VII’s Hospital in central London to her home at Windsor Castle west of the capital and said she was “in good spirits”.
Celebrities and people are sticking by her!
Prime Minister Boris Johnson conveyed his best wishes, according to his spokesman, while members of the public were unimpressed near her home at Buckingham Palace in central London. Kirsty Duffield, an operations manager, told the AFP news agency health checks were “quite normal” at the Queen’s age and it was “really positive” that she was released so quickly. Housewife Katie Lavin pointed out that the monarch was still riding and appeared strong and independent, although it was clear she was becoming “a bit fragile”.
Visiting US theatre director Charles Fee said she was described as “a tough broad” on the other side of the Atlantic.
Rumours and misinformation
The British news agency Press Association reported that the hospitalization was not initially announced because it was expected to be brief and to protect her privacy. She stayed overnight for “practical reasons” because it was too late to make the 26-mile (42-kilometer) journey back to Windsor.
The Queen has previously been treated at the exclusive private hospital known for treating the royal family, including in 2013 for gastroenteritis, where she also stayed overnight. The development follows several busy weeks in which the monarch has attended more than a dozen public appointments, including a reception for international business leaders at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.
Irritation at the palace
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Royals writer Robert Hardman told the BBC there had been a “slight irritation” at the palace this morning as news of the Queen’s hospitalisation became public.
“There was concern about preserving the dignity of the office,” Hardman said, adding that officials had probably feared “huge banks of cameras and 24-hour news bulletins lining up outside the hospital”.
However, Nicholas Witchell, long-time BBC royal correspondent, said royal officials “have not given us a full, sensible picture of what happened”.
“Rumours and misinformation run rampant (and) thrive in the absence of good, proper and trustworthy information,” he said.
“We must hope that we can rely on what the palace now tells us,” he added, calling the assurance that the queen was in good spirits “a handy phrase for the palace to dust off at such times”.
Richard Palmer, royal correspondent for the Daily Express, also called the phrase a “palace cliché.”
“Royal sources wanted to suggest that she was just overdoing it, but it may be difficult to convince the public now,” he said.