Queen Elizabeth II is “in very good shape,” says Boris Johnson

The Queen isabel II He is in “very good shape,” said the British Prime Minister on Saturday. Boris Johnson, after the 95-year-old monarch’s doctors recommended her rest for at least two more weeks.

“I spoke with His Majesty and he is in very good shape,” Johnson told Channel 4 in Rome, where he participates in a summit of leaders of the G20, the 20 main economies of the planet.

After the first weeks of October with a busy schedule, Elizabeth II, the longest-serving sovereign still on the throne, spent a night in a hospital ten days ago.

However, Buckingham Palace said on Friday, it will continue to perform “light tasks”, such as hearings by videoconference.

On the recommendation of doctors, however, he canceled two trips: one to Northern Ireland and another to Glasgow to participate, next week, in the UN climate summit.

The queen “regrets” having to give up participating in the festival of remembrance, on November 13, which pays tribute to British and Commonwealth soldiers, the Palace said.

But it “maintains the firm intention” of witnessing the event that marks the Sunday of Remembrance, a day later, around the Cenotaph, in London, the institution specified.

No further details were provided about his state of health or about the tests that were carried out during his brief hospital stay.

Doctors ordered her to rest on October 20, the day after a reception at Windsor Castle, where she was seen chatting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and American businessman Bill Gates.

Over the past few days, she has participated in some videoconferencing events from Windsor Castle, near London, such as the delivery of the gold medal for poetry to English poet David Constantine, in which she was seen smiling in a short video, on Thursday .

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