Elizabeth II has canceled the traditional preparations that she leads with the royal family, as a precautionary measure.
Like millions of other people, Queen Isabel He has had to rethink his plans for the holidays. With the cases of COVID19 shooting up in the United Kingdom and the restrictions that the government has imposed due to the strong spread of the variant omicron, the 95-year-old monarch has changed her arrangements for Christmas and New Year celebrations.
Isabel II ha called off the traditional preparations that he leads with the royal family, as a precautionary measure.
The first of them is him pre-christmas lunch which he offers to numerous members of his family, including his cousins. This meeting was scheduled for this Tuesday, December 21.
This decision in turn implies that the queen will not go to the Sandringham residence, her beloved country house, located in the English county of Norfolk, known as the home where the Windsors spend their Christmases. The queen generally stays on this estate from late December until shortly after February 6 (the date she became queen after the death of her father George VI nearly 70 years ago).
Usually, the royal family opens their gifts on Christmas Eve, instead of Christmas day, and on Christmas morning they walk to the services of the church of Santa María Magdalena, on the estate. After their church outing, the royal family return to Sandringham House for Norfolk turkey lunch and other festivities.
But with the new variant of the coronavirus, he has decided to stay at Windsor Castle. That said, the Queen’s decision also means that the annual family walk to the church, so popular with royal watchers, will also not take place this year.
This year will be an especially moving holiday period for the queen, marking her first festivities without her loving husband, Prince Philip, who died in April. They were married for 73 years.
Before the decision was made to stay in Windsor, where it has happened during the pandemic, it was understood that the royalty were making preventive plans to ensure they could see her at Christmas, so that she would not go through the day without some of her close relatives. . Visitors will follow appropriate guidelines, as is standard at the castle.
According to a note from the EFE news agency, until December 15 the United Kingdom registered 78,610 new infections of covid-19, the maximum daily registered up to that moment during the entire pandemic, above the 68,053 infections on January 8.
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