UK palace says queen, 95, spent night in hospital for checks

LONDON — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II spent a nighttime successful a infirmary for checks this week aft canceling an authoritative travel to Northern Ireland connected aesculapian advice, Buckingham Palace said Thursday.

The palace said the 95-year-old British monarch went to the backstage King Edward VII’s Hospital successful London connected Wednesday for “preliminary investigations.” It said she returned to her Windsor Castle location astatine lunchtime connected Thursday, “and remains successful bully spirits.”

On Wednesday, the queen canceled a scheduled travel to people 100 years since the instauration of Northern Ireland, and the palace said she had “reluctantly” accepted aesculapian proposal to remainder for a fewer days. It did not elaborate, but the determination was understood not to beryllium related to COVID-19. The queen has been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The palace confirmed the queen’s infirmary enactment aft The Sun paper reported the news.

The queen is present backmost astatine Windsor Castle, westbound of London, wherever she has spent overmuch of her clip since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic past year.

The determination came conscionable days aft Elizabeth was seen utilizing a walking instrumentality astatine a large nationalist lawsuit erstwhile attending a Westminster Abbey work marking the centenary of the Royal British Legion, an equipped forces charity.

She had antecedently been photographed utilizing a cane successful 2003, but that was aft she underwent genu surgery.

Britain’s longest-lived and longest-reigning monarch, Elizabeth is owed to observe her Platinum Jubilee — 70 years connected the throne — adjacent year.

Elizabeth has ruled since 1952 and was widowed this twelvemonth erstwhile Prince Philip died astatine property 99 successful April. She has chopped backmost connected her workload successful caller years but inactive keeps a engaged docket of royal duties. On Tuesday, she held audiences with diplomats and hosted a reception astatine Windsor Castle for planetary concern leaders, and connected Saturday the equine aficionado attended equine racing astatine Ascot Racecourse.

In little than 2 weeks she is owed to big satellite leaders astatine the United Nations clime acme successful Glasgow, Scotland.

She has mostly enjoyed bully wellness passim her agelong life. She was past hospitalized successful 2013, erstwhile she was 86, aft experiencing symptoms of gastroenteritis.

She precocious declined the grant of being named “Oldie of the Year” by The Oldie magazine. Her bureau said that “Her Majesty believes you are arsenic aged arsenic you feel, arsenic specified The Queen does not judge she meets the applicable criteria to beryllium capable to accept.”