It’s been about a week since there were any meltdowns about Queen Elizabeth’s health and whether Buckingham Palace was covering up a much more serious illness or condition with the head of state. The whole “two weeks of rest” thing actually made people quiet down. The Queen didn’t attend the COP26 conference in Glasgow, but she’s been doing some light desk work in Windsor Castle, and she was even photographed driving herself around the Windsor complex. As it turns out, the Queen wanted a change of pace though. A change of scenery.
Queen Elizabeth is continuing to rest up at her country home. The monarch, 95, flew by helicopter from Windsor Castle to Sandringham on Thursday, according to The Telegraph. Although health concerns in recent weeks have kept her from public events, including a canceled appearance at the COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, doctors allowed her to make the trip to her home in Norfolk for a weekend visit.
Located about 100 miles north of London, Sandringham is traditionally used by the Queen and the royal family for entertaining over Christmas and for her winter break. They exchange gag gifts at Sandringham House on Christmas Eve before heading out on Christmas morning for church at St. Mary Magdalene Church.
Following an overnight stay at a hospital on October 20, Buckingham Palace confirmed Friday that the Queen was advised by doctors that she should continue to rest for at least the next two weeks. In addition to using a walking cane to get around at events last month, the Queen has also reportedly been advised in recent months to give up horse riding and martinis.
The Queen hopes to be back in action later this month, according to the palace: “It remains The Queen’s firm intention to be present for the National Service of Remembrance on Remembrance Sunday, on 14th November.”
Imagine being bored of your castle and wanting to take the helicopter over to your gigantic private mansion and extensive grounds. Sandringham is partly a work farm and it’s a huge complex of homes, cottages, farmland, walking trails, etc. It’s possible that the Queen feels less “on duty” at Sandringham, and that she can really relax there, as opposed to Windsor Castle. Anyway, maybe she is doing better. Maybe the rest has done her a world of good.
The Queen has been seen driving her car around the Windsor estate just days after she was advised by doctors to rest for at least a fortnight https://t.co/XQGshRx5Fm
— Sky News (@SkyNews) November 1, 2021
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Instagram.
What is with these people taking helicopters everywhere?
Quick getaway before the gruesome twosome return?
QEII does not seem to me to be type that enjoys or prefers helicopter rides.
If she does travel by helicopter to Sandringham, I am sure it is for a good reason. Whatever Betty is, good & bad, she is not the ostentatious type.
lol what? She has at least one gold piano and she swans around in stolen jewels looking like a bedazzled hobgoblin. The accent really fools people into thinking these inbreds are something special…
@teecee “bedazzled hobgobblin” is the only way I will now refer to qe2! 🤣🤣
@Jiminy – we are talking about the queen not “some” – let’s not make excuses for this nonsense.
@teecee. LOLOLOL ….bedazzled hobgoblin!!!!…You got me screaming!!!!
She is surrounded by luxury. We are just supposed to think she’s humble and normal because she usually uses her private carriage on the train to get to Sandringham.
I don’t know why, but I get a bad feeling about this trip. I wonder whether she will ever leave.
The Queen certainly has a lot of cars for the opening of parliament, but I think anyone would struggle to beat Bidens motorcade.
1. Maybe wants her final rest to begin there.
2. Trying to hide from William.
3. Secret planning sessions with Andrew.
4. Mortified by Keen Kate’s actions, she’s too embarrassed to
show her face.
Bedazzled Hobgoblin!!….DEAD
Well at least it isn’t an 85 car cavalcade like some.
@JIMINY when the Queen opened parlimament there was a huge motorcade of cars including one just for her crown. What in the world are you talking about?
At least Biden has not used his power as president to be excluded from environmental and climate laws.
Weren’t we supposed to step up after cop26 for the earth and the next generations in her own words? Her age and position is no excuse. Words only no action. hypocrisy at its highest
Wasn’t this woman, just a couple weeks ago, bleating about how annoying and frustrating it is for leaders to just say but not act as they say when it comes to saving the environment? She is the biggest hypocrite IMVHO. All thieves swimming in jewels stolen from people of color and then preaching to us what MORE we should sacrifice to make her thieving arse and all her thieving offspring comfortable.
+1
I’d think going up in a helicopter, with the altitude change and the noise would be a hell of a lot MORE stressful than sitting back in a chauffeur driven Rolls/Bentley for an hour and a half, covered with her favorite cashmere blanket with her flask tucked next to her.
I think whatever health issue she has won’t allow her to sit in a car that long. A bad back or leg from a fall or digestive issues.
She usually takes car or train to Sandringham, no?
Car to Sandringham and train to Balmoral.
Yes, she usually travels by train to Kings Lynn station in Norfolk when she goes to Sandringham. She usually spends two months at Sandringham each year, from late December to early February. Her father died at Sandringham in early February.
She’s just going for the weekend, so I assume this is the quickest way to get in and out.
So on the back of this entire climate change pr she took a helicopter? Lol. This family is not serious about climate change.
Anyway, out of everyone i can understand her taking a heli more than all the other senior royals, as she is old and frail.
I think this is extremely dumb and a bad look, even for the royals. That’s why I wonder whether there’s more to this trip. Maybe she won’t be well enough to leave and they already know that. Maybe they didn’t care how bad it looked, they just wanted to get her to Sandringham because that’s where she wants to stay.
I’m probably wrong, but if that is the case, the press are going to be so mad about it because they’ve made out it’s just a weekend.
I only ever rode in helicopters in the military, so I’m sure that Liz’s (or the real Queen: Beyoncé) experience is much quieter and comfortable, and comes with no expectation of having to jump out of it long before it reaches the ground. But man, I’d take quiet cars and trains EVERYWHERE if I was rich. Choppers suck.
She is 95, I really hope they didn’t tell her stop drinking martinis. DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY, QUEEN. You are 95 – live your life and do what you want.
My grandmother in her 90s said her doctor told her to not eat as much ice cream. WHAT. Just do it. I know any one of us could die at any time, but when you are in your 90s, it’s pretty much a certainty. Just live each day in a way that brings you joy.
ITA. If you’re 95 and on the decline, as she clearly is, what exactly is cutting out cocktails going to do? Give you three !ore weeks? Let her enjoy her martinis. Who wants to deprive themselves in their last months or year of life!
I totally agree. She is 95 and could fall off her perch any day, so let her do what gives her pleasure. I have decided the reason she is being denied these things that she enjoys is because the politicians and the courtiers and probably the other members of the family fear that she will die before the Jubilee next year and they don’t want to be denied that historical event which will be a big party that (they think) will keep the masses tame and happy for a few months. If she dies before then there will instead be a long period of mourning that will make things difficult for them for all sorts of reasons. The long period of mourning will happen in due course anyway but they want to stave it off as long as possible and they believe it is in their interests for the party to take place first. Their entreaties to HM to get her to do what they want would no doubt play on her determination to serve her people as long as she lives. They probably argue it is better for the country for her to live as long as she is able to and to do selfish things like indulging her desire to drink martinis is contrary to the vow she made at 21. That’s my theory anyway. I say let the woman have her fun. She’s worked all her life and I reckon that at 95 she deserves to spend her days sitting in a comfy chair reading the form guide, watching the races on TV and sipping martinis if that’s what she wants to do.
I reckon She wanted to get away from Andrew, since he probably stressed her out when she was at Balmoral over the summer and he lives not to far from het at the royal court. LoL
And get away from that other grifter, Fergie.
Petty Betty…bleh!
I find this interesting. She doesn’t usually go to Sandringham this early, and she also usually takes the train. Maybe she is just going for a night so she didn’t feel like the train or driving, but using a helicopter to go somewhere for a night seems very wasteful. I wonder if she plans on staying at Sandringham through the holidays, maybe coming back for Remembrance Sunday and that’s it.
It is unusual. It makes me wonder of it’s a bit more of a private place where family can visit if her health is rapidly declining. Or maybe it’s a place where she’d prefer to spend her last time (if that is sadly the case).
I wonder if she decided that since she can’t do in person engagements, she may as well peace out and start her holiday early. I know her doctors said 2 weeks but they may have extended the deadline. Or even said she can’t go to the festival of remembrance so no point sticking around.
I think this is the case as well. If she can’t do any in person stuff, why not be where she’s happier?
Becks- it would definitely make more sense to just go after Rememberance Day, from travel, health, and environmental standpoints.
And there’s no way she’s in that bad of health if she’s helicoptering for a weekend. So this makes it weirder that she’s not doing in person engagements.
Okay, I have adjusted my tinfoil tiara.
What if she is going for another Sandringham summit? What if this is about the Cambridge marriage and there is going to be a big meeting about it there; Sandringham is a lot more private than Windsor, no one will notice if W&K are at the big house for a meeting.
I know that’s kind of out there, but her going to sandringham just for a weekend is also pretty out there. It’s not something she has really done in recent years (maybe she did it way back when, I don’t know, but not in the past decade or so) – just hop over to Sandringham for a weekend. She goes to Balmoral for two or three months in the summer/fall, Sandringham for a month or two in the winter, and the rest of the time she is at Buckingham, Windsor, or Holyroodhouse for things like Holyrood Week etc.
Maybe she is just really sick of Windsor and needs a change of scenery, but I don’t know, this seems “off” to me.
Oh Becks- I love this theory. What if Kate’s larvae pushing put Will past the breaking point? He calls Grandma and begs to discuss…GanGan flies out to Sandringham for a private convo.
@Becks, I like the way you’re thinking. This is not so tinfoil-y when we reflect on all the wacky messaging/activity coming from different branches of the house of Windsor.
This is exactly how nasty dictators get their henchment in media to help them push lies & propaganda to the masses: just pass it on as if its normal. Yoiu make an excellent point: why, after all the health scares which were too blatant to be polished over by the usual suspects in media, is the queen going to sandringham at this precise time (just a week before Remembrance events), for a weekend, in a helicopter.
These things beg the question: what exactly is going on? Because these activities are not the routine of a 95 year old who has lived a well-known routine for all her senior years.
And BTW: those pix of her driving are the same ones used on the day H arrived in England back in either july (for the statue unveiling) or Aproil (for phillip’s funeral.) These pix are NOT recent.
I do wish we could get on with the divorce – maybe they’ll let her keep Lou close by as a consolation prize. The FFFK and his scapegoat will need to be kept in the fold .
Are we going to hate the next one ? Is Willy suddenly going to become capable and hard working and handsome ?
Who gets Carole in the divorce? Who gets Rose?
It’s more private, as you say…so maybe a visit from her Grandson & Family who live on another continent from her? Stealth mode?
I think she’s going because she associates it with her dad. She’s thinking back, I think she knows it’s coming to the end for her and she’s getting ready emotionally. Her mother, father, sister, husband are all gone before and I imagine that’s where a lot of her thoughts are right now.
I think you nailed it @Thirtynine. That makes perfect sense to me. With all of her newly imposed limitations, I’m sure she’s having some recall of loved ones who have gone ahead and maybe making some internal preparations for her own passing.
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Omg the cover picture. You guys have such talent and one is selecting awesome photos. I still laugh when I see the Brad Pitt one. Thanks for making me spit out my coffee 😂😂
Her expression: “Ew, who farted?!”
@chloe
I agree she gave a speech written for her condemning what she just did. The irony. I agree with you that’s why she called Will’s prize a thing. Cause that’s all it is.
They british royal family shot themselves on the foot by endorsing climate activistizim in its highest level. These people can not live without private jet and helicoptar.
She went to check up on things since she’s planning to have the family over for Christmas.
Wait for it…Will Harry and Meghan be there for Christmas?
I didn’t want to bring it up because this article wasn’t about them but yeah. Get ready for a 10000 think pieces all titled “will harry and meghan visit the queen for christmas?”
The uk press is so predictable
Her Maj is getting dragged for this, big time, on the Daily Wail of all sites – hundreds of ‘hypocrite’ and ‘do what I say, not what I do!’ comments. For the first time in my life, I agree with them – the COP26 speech was a massive contradiction in terms.
Please they wouldn’t give the royals the time of day because will and Kate and the kiddos will be given first dibs. Just to rub it in there faces cause it’ll be the only time they can control them. That’s what will be interesting about the jubilee. Once they get on the plane they know they won’t be able to have no say in what they’re doing. that’s why the palace and the rota is trying to get them back for Xmas and the jubilee.
Please they wouldn’t give the royals the time of day because will and Kate and the kiddos will be given first dibs. Just to rub it in there faces cause it’ll be the only time they can control them. That’s what will be interesting about the jubilee. Once they get on the plane they know they won’t be able to have no say in what they’re doing. that’s why the palace and the rota is trying to get them back for Xmas and the jubilee.
This seems very odd. While her two heirs take jets and helicopters everywhere I can’t remember the last time i heard about her flying somewhere- especially in this Cambridge-esque “using a helicopter to shuttle between mansions” way. And it’s just odd that with how messy COP26 turned out that her courtiers would leave her open to criticism like this. Something’s off…
Well, it wouldn’t be the first time the BRF’s been totally tone-deaf. But I agree, this is a new level of cluelessness, especially for Her Maj.
Tone-deaf, I agree. And the pictures of her being driven around remind me of the time when she wanted to make a point by being seen driving with Carole. It is a PR tool to show – look, I’m alive, I’m smiling, but with the Glasgow summit tone-deaf indeed.
Maybe her doctors advised her against a long car/train ride?
@Chelsea: It’s not publicised but the Queen takes a private jet to Balmoral every year.
So, no condemnation from the press for the Queen using a helicopter to get to Sandringham a mere days after given a speech at COP26? Where’s the outrage?
So reading more carefully, I see this is a weekend visit? Not the start of her annual Holiday stay?
WTAF?? This is not only BS that she used a helicopter for such a short trip, but it’s also proof that she is not at death’s door. No way would someone on their deathbed travel for a quick weekend getaway. And the physical stress of a helicopter ride would be inadvisable for someone in delicate health. I’m now convinced TQ isn’t severely ill.
I add this to the pics of her driving around Windsor, and it leads me to conclude TQ either has intestinal issues, cognitive issues, or leg/back issues that require her to avoid public engagements, but she is not seriously ill. If she is well enough for a weekend jaunt, she should be well enough for the Rememberance concert. This makes her look ridiculous for canceling. And she better be there at the actual Rememberence Day event.
I wonder if we’ll see pics of her horseback riding. If so, the death knell will stop and the Maj will be dragged like never before for her wasteful travelling while being a somewhat healthy 95 yo having just slammed the rest of the world for not taking climate change seriously. Her people are head-shakingly bad at PR.
Imagine speaking on the environment and being taken seriously while also taking your helicopter to fly from one giant castle to another.
I have various thoughts:
Summit about Andrew and getting him under control?
Summit about the Keens, either about being lazy or the divorce
Are H&M and the kids visiting ?
Maybe she is really bad off and this is her last trip to anywhere and she won’t be going back, she will stay at Sandringham?
She’s gone to visit the horses. The man driving her is her racing manager. She’s probably staying at Wood Farm where Philip spent most of his time in retirement.
This is it. I know I said that earlier to someone else and I think both could be correct. If her Racing Manager is driving her, perhaps she is saying good-bye to the horses. This makes sense to me.
She looks cheerful. There was speculation that she was visiting the stud farm to see some new foals.
Shake it anyway you want, petty Betty needs to stay away from the environmental issues, and back patting Charlie, and willy, then taking helicopters around the island. Simply not a good look for whatever the reason. What are all those working royals doing???. Can’t they carry out some of the short term duties for her?.
It can’t be the American royals, they are in NY, right? BHG -bedazzled hobgoblin- loves her “alleged” rapist son and would never reprimand him! It might be about the lazy keens needing to step it up if they still expect a throne to inherit.
Her beloved commonwealth is cracking and breaking apart.
I hope if the keens come to America they get grilled and asked constantly about our American royals.
Whatever happened, is happening, or will happen is Meghan’s fault, just to be clear
In descending order of probability:
1. Summit about Won’t and Can’t. Kate bailing out of the recent trip after one day says something went down in Glasgow.
2. Summit about Andrew. Someone may have finally realized just how badly his legal defense will damage the monarchy since she’s paying for it.
3. She knows she’s circling the drain and she’s gone to the place where her father died for the same privacy and comfort that her husband had wanted for his own last days.
4. She’s really that tone-deaf and this is just a weekend leisure jaunt.
As Greta Thunberg concludes: COP26 is a failure, a PR event! Just look at the royals’ meaningless performative actions and Boris Johnson’s clownerie at this summit .
Climate change is a symptom of our failing socio-economic systems not the cause. As long as the global elite is not willing to give up it’s privileges and the masses are not willing to give up their excessive consumption, we humans are stuck in a downward spiral of our own making! We know the truth, we have the knowledge but it takes courage to break this destructive cycle in time and create a better world!
It’s so sad she’s trapped by her sense of duty, her distaste for an abdication based on her uncle David, and her conviction that her son is not a worthy successor. She is 95 years old and she deserves the chance to retire.