Corona shock before Christmas: Queen Elizabeth II's son-in-law infected
Created: 12/23/2021, 05:05 AM
From: Anna Lehmer
At the Christmas address in 2019, the photo with Meghan, Harry and son Archie was missing on the Queen's table.
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London - Queen Elizabeth II wants to spend the festival of love with her whole family, but Corona thwarts her plans.
Now it has been decided how the Queen will celebrate Christmas.
Update from December 22nd, 7.09 p.m
.: Because of the corona pandemic, Queen Elizabeth II threw her Christmas
plans
overboard. Now it got even worse: Your son-in-law Sir Timothy Laurence (66) tested positive for Corona. Princess Anne's husband, 71, is
currently
recovering, according to a report in the
Daily Mail
. Presumably he is in quarantine on Gatcombe Park Estate. This means that Princess Anne should also be in isolation. So the Queen has to spend the festival of love without her daughter.
Original message from December 22nd, 12:59 p.m .:
It is the first Christmas Eve without her beloved husband Prince Philip.
Queen Elizabeth II has to spend the day alone after 73 Christmas parties together, because the Duke of Edinburgh died on April 9, 2021 at the age of 99.
In order to make the festival as beautiful as possible, the Queen wants to stick to old traditions.
The 95-year-old Queen planned to make her annual trip to Sandringham to have a big Christmas dinner with the whole British royal family.
But Corona now thwarted her plan.
Queen Elizabeth: Christmas at Windsor Castle
As reported by the
Daily Mail
, it has been ruled that the Queen will not be allowed to spend the holidays in Sandringham.
The 95-year-old usually stays on the 20,000 hectare property until the beginning of February and has been for many years.
Only in 2020 did she have to spend the holidays alone in Windsor due to the lockdown, apart from her late husband and few employees.
Holidays in Sandringham "increasingly in the balance"
A royal insider told the British newspaper that her stay in Sandringham was "increasingly in limbo", although everything was done to ensure that the Queen was allowed to spend the festival there.
As the German press agency learned from palace circles on Monday, the Queen will stay in Windsor instead.
The traditional pre-Christmas dinner has already been canceled due to the current situation in Great Britain.
The increasing number of Covid cases posed too great a risk for the 90-year-old Queen. The members of the royal family meet at this dinner every year, so that up to 50 people would have come together.
Queen Elizabeth II waives the Christmas service
"All plans have been considered," including a trip to Sandringham to celebrate the Queen's holiday, other sources said.
As a first precaution, the Queen had decided to stay away from the Christmas service at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, which was being attended by 200 people.
Instead, the deeply religious queen should attend a private service, as she did last year.
Christmas "as normal as possible"
All plans would be under strong scrutiny, yet an insider told the
Mail on Sunday
: "There is a strong desire for it to be as normal as possible, but of course that is subject to practical considerations."
In times of a global pandemic, however, many things are unlikely to run normally, as the newly discovered Omicron variant frightens many people.
Since the risk of Corona for the Queen, who has been suffering from health problems for months, has increased, a small-group celebration was arranged at Windsor Castle.
Decision made about Christmas plans
According
to an insider, according to
the
Daily Mail,
there is a belief that it is the right thing for everyone to take every possible precaution and cancel gatherings such as the annual family dinner.
A royal source
told the
Mirror
that Queen Elizabeth and the rest of the family are aware that the current situation is changing daily and that not only they are affected by the tightened rules, but thousands of families across the UK.
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