Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth is under"medical supervision" amid concerns, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle sent words of support in Parliament.Prime Minister Liz Truss said"the whole country will be"My thoughts — and the thoughts of people across our United Kingdom — are with Her Majesty The Queen and her family at this time," she said on Twitter.
Others offering thoughts and prayers included U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Jane Hartley and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.Queen postponed Privy Council meeting, advised to restpostponed a meeting of senior governmental advisers known as the Privy CouncilThe council had been scheduled to meet virtually on Wednesday, a day after the monarch had a full day of activities as she presided over the ceremonial handover power to the new prime minister at her summer residence in Scotland.
Truss would have taken the oath as First Lord of the Treasury, one of her other titles, and new Cabinet ministers would have been sworn in during the session. The meeting will be rescheduled.The queen has increasingly handed over duties to and other members of the royal family in recent months as she struggled to get around.
The queen's latest postponement comes days after she decided to skip the Braemar Gathering, a popular Highland Games event she loves and attends every year, as sheLast week, the monarch also decided to formally appoint Britain's new prime minister on Tuesday at Balmoral Castle rather than make the more than 800-mile round trip to London for the traditional ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
Her eldest son and heir Prince Charles, who normally accompanies the monarch to the Highland Games, will attend in her stead.
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