Buckingham Palace has deliberate a ‘military-style’ operation to get the Queen to Prince Philip’s memorial service out of view from paparazzi cameras, insiders say.
Earlier this month the monarch dropped out of the Commonwealth Day service for the primary time in ten years over considerations for her consolation and mobility points.
She has been much less seen over the previous yr, after spending three months resting on docs orders and having not too long ago recovered from a bout of Covid.
A wheelchair-friendly carry is believed to have been put in at her cottage in Balmoral, and she is constant to reduce her diary.
So as a substitute of taking a 60-mile spherical journey and having to take a seat in Westminster Abbey for over an hour, she watched Monday’s Commonwealth Day service on the telly at Windsor Citadel.
However she is about on attending the church on March 29 for a thanksgiving service for her late husband the Duke of Edinburgh, who died final April aged 99.
Palace sources say she’ll be flown by helicopter from Windsor to Buckingham Palace – taking round quarter-hour – earlier than being pushed a brief distance to the Abbey.
To keep away from her having to stroll round 100 yards from the doorway by means of the nave and choir to get to her seat, officers are regarded as placing collectively her personal personal entrance.
Your entire Dean’s Yard can be sealed off beneath the plans, so the Queen’s workers can park in personal subsequent to a side-door, the Solar on Sunday experiences.
Six-foot tall privateness screens and doubtlessly a football-style tunnel can be use to cease any photographers getting photos of Her Majesty.
One supply advised the Mail on Sunday the Queen doesn't wish to be seen in public in a wheelchair over fears she’d replicate a ‘haunting’ photograph of her sister Princess Margaret within the months earlier than her demise.
Regardless of her age and rising frailty, the pinnacle of state continues to be decided to hold on strolling for so long as attainable.
However the possibility of wheelchair help is being explored by officers so she will get round components of the Abbey sooner and extra comfortably.
They're additionally contemplating whether or not to seat her earlier than the viewers arrives, reasonably than her sitting down final as per custom.
Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty Journal, mentioned that whereas the Queen ‘doesn’t wish to be seen in a wheelchair’, she could concede so the general public can see their Head of State.
She advised the Solar: ‘One of the best ways of doing that's to ensure there aren't any images taken. This could possibly be a costume rehearsal for every part on the Platinum Jubilee. I feel she desires to go as she is aware of Philip would need her to be there.
‘She will probably be considering that if it was her thanksgiving ceremony, he would transfer Heaven and Earth to ensure he was there.
‘She would actually hate to overlook it. It's a headache for her workers as it will be troublesome for anybody of her age who suffers mobility issues. It will be a painful course of for her.’
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