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The Queen spent night in hospital after cancelling Northern Ireland visit

Buckingham Palace says Elizabeth II is now back in Windsor after doctors advised a few days’ rest

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Queen Elizabeth II welcoming guests at a Windsor Castle reception on Tuesday. Photograph: Getty Images

The 95-year-old had been due to take part in a two-day trip, but doctors told her that she should rest for a couple of days at Windsor Castle.

However she was then admitted to hospital for “preliminary investigations”.

That last bit is the usual cover for something big. She is 95 after all.

No need for Plan B?

Much talk at the moment about the persistent and increasing level of cases in UK. So much higher than other western European countries.

However, from the government point of view this is not a problem. But to emphasise how serious this is they are apparently ‘checking the data hourly’- LOL.

So the message is that no action is needed and all is ok.

Until it is not presumably when the penny drops that the health service is dealing with so many Covid cases that the backlog of work from the last 2 years is not being dealt with or someone finally acknowledges that the deaths and ill health are not acceptable.

Then we will be told, in months to come, that all action was taken at the right time without delay, and that ‘ the science was followed’. Let’s hope the facts are clear when the questions are finally asked.