Can Anyone Convince Queen Elizabeth to Step Down?
As messages go, those coming out of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle over the past seven days have been decidedly mixed.
On Wednesday last week, the “knackered” queen cancelled an extremely important trip to Northern Ireland at the last minute and was dramatically admitted to hospital (a fact which her aides tried and failed to cover up). She then missed church on Sunday and has failed to even walk her beloved dogs for the past week as she rested up in the wake of the mystery health situation.
On Tuesday, things became really surreal; all morning her aides insisted there was no change to her scheduled keynote attendance at the Cop26 climate summit which begins on Monday 1 November.