According to doctors’ orders, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has postponed a key meeting scheduled for Wednesday, according to Buckingham Palace.
A day after appointing Liz Truss as the new prime minister of the UK, the 96-year-old monarch was scheduled to attend a virtual meeting of her Privy Council on Wednesday.
During the Queen’s seventy-year reign, Truss is the fifteenth prime minister to hold that position.
Queen Elizabeth postpones a key meeting after appearing with a bruise on her hand.
“After a full day yesterday, Her Majesty has this afternoon accepted doctors’ advice to rest,” Palace Spokesman said.
The declaration came a day in which royal expert Angela Levin claimed that the Queen had a large bruise on her hand when she met Truss a few days prior.
Since meeting the new queen in 1952 at Heathrow Airport after the death of her father, George VI, it had not been held outside of London.
The Privy Council, a form of a royal advisory group with hundreds of members, including political and religious leaders, typically holds meetings once a month.
Wednesday’s virtual ceremony was supposed to include Truss taking an oath, signing in new cabinet members, and admitting new ministers as privy counselors if they weren’t already.
