The Queen appeared to brush off concerns about her mobility as she walked unaided to catch the Royal Train to Scotland.
Footage of the monarch moving spritely was captured just hours before she was pictured with a broad smile on her face, holding a bouquet and standing without the use of her stick at the start of the Royal Family’s Holyrood Week.
The 96-year-old, who was also recorded getting off the train without assistance hours later, had arrived in Edinburgh for the historic Ceremony of the Keys.
Dressed in a powder blue silk wool coat and dress by Stewart Parvin, paired with a hat by Rachel Trevor-Morgan, the Queen was symbolically offered the keys to the Scottish capital by its Lord Provost Robert Aldridge.
The Queen was joined by her youngest son, Edward, and his wife, Sophie, known as the Earl and Countess of Forfar while they are in Scotland.
The Sun showed video of the Queen boarding the train at Windsor and Eton Riverside Station without the help of any of her aides.
In the footage she is shown walking steadily with her stick in her right hand and carrying the black handbag seen in her Paddington Bear jubilee video with her left.
Her Majesty was later filmed disembarking from the train. In the video shared by the Daily Mail, she is seen negotiating the steps to the platform on her own before waving for the camera and walking to a waiting car.
The Queen will be back on her feet today when she attends an armed forces ceremony in the gardens of the Palace of Holyroodhouse as part of a presentation of the key for Edinburgh Castle.
The parade, which will see all three services represented, will be an opportunity to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in Scotland. It will also pay tribute to her role as head of the UK armed forces.
Her Scotland trip for Holyrood Week comes after the recent Platinum Jubilee celebrations for the Queen, in which she pledged to continue to serve the country “to the best of my ability supported by my family”.
