Platinum Jubilee: the queen’s forfeit reopens questions

(ANSA) – LONDON, JUN 03 – The questions about Elizabeth’s physical condition, if not about her health, are returning to British commentators on real things, behind the enthusiastic headlines of the tabloids that today underline the triumph of the people paid yesterday to the 96-year-old sovereign on the first day of public Platinum Jubilee celebrations of her 70-year record reign.

The appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace at center stage, the symbolic highlight of the celebrations at the height of the Trooping the Color parade, dominates the scene in this morning’s headlines; but the renunciation announced last night in extremis to participate in the thanksgiving liturgy for the Jubilee scheduled for late morning today in St. Paul’s Cathedral – with the expected presence also of the rebel prince Harry, who returned to the Kingdom for the occasion with the consort Meghan and little Archie and Lilibet Diana – makes you think.

The prevailing interpretation is that Elizabeth is inevitably tested by yesterday’s fatigue, aggravated by publicly confessed mobility problems in recent months.

The expression used by the building in the communiqué in which this umpteenth recent forfeit was formalized actually refers to a certain “discomfort”: therefore not an illness, but – apparently – a passing malaise resulting from fatigue.

In short, a fatigue that did not prevent her even after the announcement to be seen again in public last night in the park of Windsor Castle, for the lighting of a bonfire that started a light show global in his honor organized simultaneously in 3000 different locations in the UK and Commonwealth nations. But you have evidently suggested avoiding the further strain of a new move today in the heart of London and a long public service in church. (HANDLE).

Source: Ansa

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