UK's Queen Elizabeth to miss annual Maundy Service

LONDON – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, who has been struggling some issues along with her mobility, won't attend subsequent week’s annual Maundy Service, the place the monarch normally distributes cash to pensioners in an historic custom forward of Easter.

Elizabeth, who turns 96 later this month, might be represented by her son and inheritor Prince Charles and his spouse Camilla on the service on Thursday at Windsor Fortress’s St George’s Chapel.

A palace supply stated the queen was unable to decide to attending and didn't need her absence to overshadow the event and for these attending to remember upfront.

The monarch has been compelled to chop again on engagements since being hospitalised for an evening final October for an unspecified sickness, after which being informed by her docs to relaxation.

Final month she made her first public look in months at a memorial service to her late husband Prince Philip, the place she used a strolling stick, having quipped at an engagement in February that she couldn't transfer a lot.

Nonetheless, she has continued to hold out common duties nearly, performing two audiences with international ambassadors by video hyperlink on Thursday.

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