Queen returns to Windsor in readiness for Remembrance Sunday

The Queen was ordered to rest by her doctors three weeks ago
The Queen was ordered to rest by her doctors three weeks ago
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The Queen has returned to Windsor Castle from her Sandringham estate in readiness for her expected attendance at the Remembrance Sunday wreath-laying ceremony in Whitehall this weekend.

She is understood to have flown back from Norfolk by helicopter.

Buckingham Palace has said it is the Queen’s “firm intention” to attend the annual service at the Cenotaph.

She was ordered to rest by her doctors three weeks ago after spending a night in hospital undergoing preliminary tests.

She pulled out of a trip to Northern Ireland and also missed the Cop26 climate change summit in Glasgow.

However, concerns for her health were allayed when it was revealed that she was well enough to travel by helicopter to Sandringham in Norfolk on November 4 for a long-planned