Queen Elizabeth II has been advised to rest for at least the next two weeks, accepting doctors' recommendations to take on only light duties and not travel, Buckingham Palace said Friday.
The decision comes days after the 95-year-old sovereign underwent medical tests and spent the night at London's King Edward VII's Hospital, her first such stay in in eight years. The Queen has continued to work since then and will press on with desk-based duties, but will skip the Nov.
It is significant that the palace statement highlighted the wish of the monarch to attend Remembrance Sunday ceremonies, as it is major event on the sovereign's calendar and one to which she has attached great importance. She cancelled a trip to mark 100 years since the creation of Northern Ireland on Oct. 20. That was followed only days later by the announcement that she would not appear at the the UN climate conference in Glasgow -- a great disappointment to Britain's Conservative government, which was hoping to stress the importance of the two-week meeting to save the Earth from uncontrollable global warming.
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