When Queen Elizabeth returned from an overnight stay at King Edward VII Hospital in London last Thursday, Buckingham Palace announced that she had returned to undertaking “light duties.” At the time, royal insiders believed she was still planning to attend the opening reception of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on November 1, and was saving her energy.
Other members of the family, including Prince Charles, Prince William, Kate Middleton, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are still planning to attend the event, at which representatives from nearly 200 countries will gather to discuss plans to reduce carbon emissions.
The palace did not disclose the reason why the queen was taken to the hospital last week but did mention she was there for “preliminary investigations” in a statement.
Though the queen originally began doing video calls in response to the pandemic, she is now integrating them into her schedule as a part of her light duties.
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