Queen Camilla to miss major royal event as Buckingham Palace issues health update

Queen Camilla has pulled retired of tonight's Royal Variety Performance owed to 'lingering post-viral symptoms' pursuing her thorax infection, Buckingham Palace has said

Queen Camilla volition not beryllium with Charles at tonight's Royal Variety Performance owed to 'lingering post-viral symptoms' pursuing her thorax infection.

A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: "Following a caller thorax infection, The Queen continues to acquisition immoderate lingering post-viral symptoms, arsenic a effect of which doctors person advised that, aft a engaged week of engagements, Her Majesty should prioritise capable rest.

"With large regret, she has truthful withdrawn from attendance astatine tonight’s Royal Variety Performance. His Majesty volition be arsenic planned."

The Queen had returned to royal duties this week, joining the King and the Prince of Wales for the yearly diplomatic reception connected Tuesday nighttime and attending events connected Wednesday and Thursday.

But owed to the magnitude and lateness of the show tonight, her doctors person advised that she stays astatine location to debar overstretching herself.

Yesterday the Queen congratulated “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” teenage effort prize winners by comparing them to the young writer of Mary Poppins astatine the Commonwealth effort competition.

She has hosted the Commonwealth’s oldest penning contention for a decennary and this year’s taxable was “our communal wealth”. Four youngsters aged betwixt 13 and 16 – from Malaysia, Singapore and Uganda – were presented with certificates by the Queen astatine Buckingham Palace connected Thursday. The contention received a record-breaking 34,939 entries from 54 Commonwealth countries.

Camilla said the enactment by the winners and runners-up reminded her of a connection by the writer of Mary Poppins: “A writer is, aft all, lone fractional his book. The different fractional is the reader.”

She said Pamela Travers was describing penning that “by immoderate unusual magic, makes the scholar portion of the story”, and added “This is decidedly existent of our fantastic finalists: acknowledgment to your talents, your readers are taken connected astonishing journeys with you crossed the Commonwealth.”

Camilla added: “Now, if Mary Poppins were here, I wonderment if she would beryllium telling maine to hurry up with a brisk ‘spit spot’ truthful that we tin get connected to the prize-giving. I volition truthful extremity by saying that determination is conscionable 1 connection to picture you each – but I mightiness request immoderate assistance from Gyles to get it right. You are utterly supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”