Queen Elizabeth II, whose appearances have been rare since her brief hospitalization in October, granted another in-person audience on Wednesday, receiving organist Thomas Trotter.
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Appearing smiling in photos of the meeting, the 95-year-old sovereign presented the musician with the Queen’s Medal for Music at Windsor Castle.
The Queen has made the castle, which is about fifty kilometers west of London, her main place of residence since the first containment due to the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020.
The state of health of the sovereign, which reigns for nearly 70 years, worries since she was put to rest by her doctors on October 20 and spent a night in the hospital for “preliminary” examinations of which the nature has never been specified.
It has since significantly reduced its activities.
She received the Governor of the Bank of England on November 24, and on November 21 the Queen attended the baptism of her last two great-grandsons at All Saints Chapel in the Royal Estate of Windsor.
A few days earlier, she had given her first face-to-face interview made public in a month, receiving the British Chief of Staff Nick Carter at Windsor Castle.
The Queen was originally scheduled to make her public return on November 14, watching a ceremony honoring war victims from a balcony, but her attendance was canceled at the last minute as the palace said she suffered from back pain. .
Elizabeth II also gave up at the end of October her trip to Glasgow (Scotland) for the United Nations climate conference (COP26) where Princes Charles, the heir to the throne, and William, her eldest son, represented the royal family. .