Is there something the matter with the Queen

[Publius Ovidius]

Apart from her looking bored and fed up at the Opening ceremony, she hasn't been seen around at any event and also very curiously she wasn't there last night.

What was also odd is that I assume she was expected last night as both Rogge and Coe's speeches started with Your Magesty, Royal Highnesses etc etc.

I hope all this Jubilee stuff, Phillip being in hospotal etc has not started to take its toll...she is in her 90's isn't she?

 

[BBassic]

Mate, if she's anything like my nan she probably spends most days wishing people would leave her alone so she can have a cup of tea in peace and quiet.

 

[Hove Seagull]

We thought exactly the same when we saw it was Prince Harry and Kate at last night's ceremony.
Hope nothing bad has happened.

 

[readingstockport]

Someone on popbitch is claiming that her husband died during the olympics but it has been kept quiet so as not to disrupt the event.

 

[Giraffe]

It is very odd. No Queen, so you'd expect Prince Charles. No Prince Charles, so you'd expect Prince William. You'd also expect Prince Phillip to be there. But Prince Harry WITH Kate. Just weird.

Every Olympic event has seen Wills with Kate and Harry. Weird weird weird.

 

[Giraffe]

People sometimes forget that she is nearly 90!

So where was Charles and Wills?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

What was also odd is that I assume she was expected last night as both Rogge and Coe's speeches started with Your Magesty, Royal Highnesses etc etc.

Harry was representing her so the "Your Mag" was directed at him.

 

[Titanic]

...What was also odd is that I assume she was expected last night as both Rogge and Coe's speeches started with Your Magesty, Royal Highnesses etc etc.

I think that was "Your majesties..." referring to the various visiting royal visitors.

It wasn't exactly her thing, was it? And she didn't have a specific role to play, because Rogge 'closed' the games.

I think she just gave it a swerve.

 

[Gwylan]

According to press reports, she's on holiday in Balmoral

 

[Gritt23]

It is very odd. No Queen, so you'd expect Prince Charles. No Prince Charles, so you'd expect Prince William. You'd also expect Prince Phillip to be there. But Prince Harry WITH Kate. Just weird.

Every Olympic event has seen Wills with Kate and Harry. Weird weird weird.

I agree, and I'm rather surprised more of it hasn't been made.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

She probably read the CT thread and decided it was safer to stay away.

 

[Gritt23]

According to press reports, she's on holiday in Balmoral

If that was planned, then that is very odd timing.
And Charles? And William?

 

[Titanic]

It is very odd. No Queen, so you'd expect Prince Charles. No Prince Charles, so you'd expect Prince William. You'd also expect Prince Phillip to be there. But Prince Harry WITH Kate. Just weird.

Every Olympic event has seen Wills with Kate and Harry. Weird weird weird.

Olympics closing ceremony: Queen praises athletes but will not be there - Telegraph

"In a message to British and Commonwealth athletes released by Buckingham Palace, the sovereign also thanked the volunteers who have given such a “warm welcome” to people from around the world.

The Queen will not attend tonight’s closing ceremony, as Buckingham Palace said there was no official role for a Head of State in the ceremony.

Instead, she is expected to watch it at Balmoral, where she and the Duke of Edinburgh are spending their traditional summer break before returning to London for the start of the Paralympic Games later this month.

Prince Harry, the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Royal will represent the Royal family at the Olympic Stadium.

The Queen wrote: “As the 2012 London Olympic Games come to a close, I offer my congratulations to the athletes of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, whose efforts across the range of Olympic disciplines have truly captured the public's imagination and earned their admiration."

 

[Thunder Bolt]

William does have a day job so was probably on duty. The Queen is probably resting at Balmoral, as at 86, she's had a hectic year.

 

[swindonseagull]

She is on holiday in Scotland....I know this as we flew her there and will fly her back when she has finished. (Royal Flight)

 

[Giraffe]

I really don't get why Kate would go without Wills. And why Charles would not go instead of Harry. Very very odd.

 

[Giraffe]

William does have a day job so was probably on duty. The Queen is probably resting at Balmoral, as at 86, she's had a hectic year.

And Charles?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

And Charles?

Skiving somewhere.

 

[desprateseagull]

I believe by protocol the Queen only opens events, not closes them?

 

[Munkfish]

I don't blame her for not being there, I doubt many people that age would want to be at a pop concert until gone midnight on a Sunday night.