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The queen is back: the first royal engagement (after hospitalization) that calms the world

Nothing stops there Queen Elizabeth II. Not too long, at least. The ninety-five-year-old sovereign he met Sir Nick Carter in Windsor Castle, Chief of Defense Staff. This is the first official engagement after hospitalization of last October 20 and the subsequent period of forced rest that forced her to skip – on the orders of the royal doctors – important institutional events: the Cop 26, the celebrations of Remembrance Sunday Service, even the Quinquennial National Assembly of the Church of England.

Forced to cancel the synod of the Anglican church of which she is nominally head, the monarch, through her son Edward, had sent a touching message to the assembly: “It is difficult to believe that more than 50 years since when Prince Philip and I attended the very first meeting of the General Synod. None of us can slow down the passage of time».

Words that seemed to ward off His Majesty’s public return. Not even two days later, she was back at work. A not too burdensome commitment, of course, given that the official meeting took place at his “home”. However, after almost a month of absence interspersed with rare virtual appearances (such as the one at Cop26), and the first time we see it in flesh and blood.

Penny Junior, a Windsor reporter, in recent days he explained that “the queen «she is entering a new phase of her reign, where we won’t see her in public that often“. His Majesty is 95 years old. Not even she can “slow down the passage of time.” But he doesn’t forget that on the occasion of his twenty-first birthday he had said to his subjects: “My whole life, be it short or long, will be in the service of you and of our country“. A promise which, despite the passing years, has no intention of failing. He proved it in early October when he is presented in public with the walking stick. How to say: in spite of her age and related ailments, the queen is there. And it will always be there.

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