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Queen Camilla is unwell with a chest infection and has withdrawn from her engagements this week, Buckingham Palace announced today.
The Duchess of Gloucester has stepped in on the 77-year-old’s behalf to attend the annual opening of the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey this Thursday.
Camilla has also pulled out of a Buckingham Palace reception for Olympic and Paralympic athletes hosted by her husband King Charles III the same evening.
The Queen, who returned to the UK on October 30 after a busy official overseas tour to Australia and Samoa with the monarch, is understood to be resting at home.
The update comes after a year of difficult health troubles for the Royal Family, with both the King and the Princess of Wales being diagnosed with cancer.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla on a beach in Apia during their trip to Samoa on October 25
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: ‘Her Majesty The Queen is currently unwell with a chest infection, for which her doctors have advised a short period of rest.
‘With great regret, Her Majesty has therefore had to withdraw from her engagements for this week but she very much hopes to be recovered in time to attend this weekend’s Remembrance events as normal.
‘She apologises to all those who may be inconvenienced or disappointed as a result.’
No further details regarding her illness or treatment have been released, but Camilla is understood to be under doctors’ supervision.
It comes ahead of a new ITV documentary in which Camilla vows she will ‘keep trying’ to end domestic violence, until she is ‘able to no more’.
Camilla tells the film, being shown on November 11, that domestic abuse is a ‘heinous crime’ and she is determined to continue raising awareness of the issue.
The Duchess of Gloucester has stepped in to attend a Remembrance event at Westminster Abbey on Thursday. Camilla is pictured with her at Buckingham Palace on February 22
The Queen was followed over the course of a year for the show looking at her work in this field, including private meetings with survivors and a visit to a refuge centre.
On ending domestic violence, Camilla said in the programme ‘Her Majesty The Queen: Behind Closed Doors’ that it is ‘going to take a long, long time because it has been going on forever’.
She continued: ‘It’s been going since, since time began. But I think if you look at the steps that we’ve taken since the bad old days, we have made a huge amount of progress, and I shall keep on trying until I am able to no more.’
Meanwhile Prince William is on a four-day visit to South Africa to promote his environmental Earthshot Prize, which is holding its annual awards ceremony in Cape Town tomorrow.
Today, William took in the views of Cape Town’s famous Table Mountain when he met park rangers at Signal Hall – and later had a meeting with South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa.
