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Queen Elizabeth flies to her Sandringham estate
Queen Elizabeth has flown by helicopter to her Sandringham property.
Queen Elizabeth has flown to Sandringham
The 95-year-old monarch often spends the New yr interval at her nation property in Norfolk, however she as a substitute determined to base herself at Windsor Fort over the vacation season resulting from a pointy spike in coronavirus instances within the UK in December.
The Queen – who flew on Sunday (23.01.22) – usually stays at Sandringham till after February 6, the date that marks the anniversary of George VI’s dying and her personal accession to the throne.
The upcoming date would be the seventieth anniversary of her accession and her Platinum Jubilee celebrations are being organised for June.
The Queen recorded her Christmas message from Windsor Fort final yr.
The monarch misplaced her husband Prince Philip in April, on the age of 99, and she or he touched upon her private heartbreak throughout her speech in December.
She stated in her annual handle to the nation: “Christmas may be laborious for individuals who have misplaced family members. This yr particularly I perceive why.”
The Queen – who married Philip in 1947 and is the longest-reigning British monarch of all time – additionally described her late husband as “irrepressible”.
She added: “That mischievous, inquiring twinkle was as brilliant on the finish as after I first set eyes on him.
“However life after all consists of ultimate partings in addition to first conferences.
“And as a lot as I and my household miss him, I do know he would need us to take pleasure in Christmas.
“We felt his presence as we, like tens of millions all over the world, readied ourselves for Christmas.
“Whereas COVID once more means we are able to’t have fun fairly as we might have wished, we are able to nonetheless benefit from the many glad traditions.”
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