UK’s Queen Elizabeth postpones meeting, told to rest by doctors

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Queen Elizabeth was compelled to cancel a deliberate digital assembly with ministers on Wednesday after being suggested to relaxation by her docs, a day after the 96-year-old monarch appointed Liz Truss because the nation’s new prime minister.

“After a full day yesterday, Her Majesty has this afternoon accepted docs’ recommendation to relaxation,” Buckingham Palace mentioned in a press release. “Which means that the Privy Council assembly that had been as a consequence of happen this night might be rearranged.”

The queen is at present at her Scottish house, Balmoral Citadel, the place Boris Johnson formally resigned on Tuesday as prime minister and shortly afterwards, the place Truss was appointed his successor and the fifteenth premier of Elizabeth’s reign.

The monarch has been affected by what Buckingham Palace has referred to as “episodic mobility issues” for the reason that finish of final 12 months, which have compelled her to chop again on engagements since then and cut back her public appearances.

Buckingham Palace gave no additional particulars in regards to the queen’s well being however mentioned the newest recommendation from her docs didn’t contain hospitals. She is going to stay at Balmoral, the palace mentioned.

The digital assembly of the Privy Council would have seen Truss take her oath as First Lord of the Treasury, in addition to the swearing in of recent cupboard ministers and their appointment as privy counsellors if they didn’t already occupy this position.

Final week, the queen was compelled to overlook the Braemar Highland Gathering in Scotland for the primary time since she got here to the throne 70 years in the past due to mobility points.

(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan and Michael Holden; Modifying by Bernadette Baum)