WINDSOR, May 16 — A smiling Queen Elizabeth II attended a Platinum Jubilee celebration at Windsor yesterday, days after ill health and old age forced her to pull out of the opening of the UK parliament for the first time in nearly 60 years. The 96-year-old monarch used a walking stick to make her...
WINDSOR, May 16 — A smiling Queen Elizabeth II attended a Platinum Jubilee celebration at Windsor yesterday, days after ill health and old age forced her to pull out of the opening of the UK parliament for the first time in nearly 60 years.
The audience gave the queen a standing ovation at the star-studded equestrian extravaganza, led by Hollywood actors Tom Cruise and Helen Mirren. An unscheduled overnight hospital stay last October and frailty have seen her withdraw from a string of public engagements.