The Queen is to have her workload slashed to just core activities due to her health while from now on she will be accompanied by other royals at events, according to reports.
Sir Edward Young, the Queen’s private secretary, is said to be under pressure to reduce her diary to only key events like her Platinum Jubilee to celebrate 70 years as monarch, next June.
At the same time a reported move to have other members of the Royal Family at events with the Queen would be so that in the event that she had to cancel, then the event wouldn’t be called off.
The Sunday Telegraph reports other royals will provide support for the Queen as she carried out her duties.
Currently the Queen is still due to attend the UN Climate Change Conference on November 1 but it is believed that a final decision will be made on that this week.
The Queen did cancel a trip to Northern Ireland and then spent last Wednesday night in hospital.
Her press team have been criticised for not being more upfront about her health with news that she was in King Edward Vll’s Hospital, in London, came through a newspaper leak.
It has a difficult balance with the Queen pursuing an active role as head of state and also being realistic about what she can do due to her advancing age.
Due to Covid, the Queen has reportedly had a build up of events in her diary.
In Buckingham Palace’s Court Circular she has had 13 meetings and has attended seven major events so far this month.
"They have to find some kind of balance," Sally Bedell Smith, a biographer of the Queen, told the Mail. "I hope they have learnt from the pretty punishing pace she kept over the course of a month that that is maybe just too much."
So far she has cut back on some of her duties including long haul journeys in 2013 while other royals are more regularly getting involved for jobs such as giving out knighthoods.
But there is also a fear that if she doesn’t ease back further then it could impact negatively on her health.
"She doesn’t want to end up constantly in hospital because she is exhausted,’ said royal biographer Ingrid Seward. "She will have to do all the big events. It’s the smaller events that she can hand over."
