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Any word on how the Queen is doing? Someone of her age getting sick makes me a bit nervous.
LaRae
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I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong but even though I cannot for the life of me find a source, I seem to recall that on Christmas morning, HM has a more private service where she receives communion. Then its the family traditional service at St. Mary Magdalene Church. If this is true, HM very much did keep fastidiously to her religious beliefs. She just confined them to her own private service at home this year.
Its rare, if ever, that we see HM at all during the week following Christmas day so no news actually could be very good news in this regards. With this being the winter season, I can attest to the fact that once a cold sets in, if the body isn't coddled and nurtured and kept warm, all kinds of very bad things are waiting to crop up. My own recipe, because I can never keep it straight, is feed a cold, feed a fever. HM has a quarter of a century on me and if I think a nasty cold can wipe me out and put me out of action for quite a while, I can imagine the havoc it could cause with her no matter how hale and healthy she normally is.
Of course we're all very concerned about HM's health and that is a definite proof of just how much this one elderly woman has touched all of us. I think I'm going to go and eat an orange and think healthy, positive thoughts towards one wonderful Queen.
Thanks hel for confirming that there are two services and correcting my statement to state that both services are conducted at the church itself. That's the part I was trying to find sources on and maybe my fingers are tired and overworked and refused to find anything for me.
I, for the life of me, cannot imagine one reverend with a congregation not willing to take communion to the sick and the infirm of their parishes. To be able to do this for HM, The Queen and Supreme Governor of the Church of England itself would be agreed to in a heartbeat. We will never know though exactly what occurred as it really isn't our business to know.
Oh sheesh. If you are referring to the odious Mr. Collins, he most certainly would have jumped at any accolades that would be bestowed upon his ego that would involve his Queen. The guy was a name dropper to the nth degree.
No updates from the Palace so far.
How do we know she still has a cold ?
The Palace spokesman said: ‘The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh continue to recover from their heavy colds.’
Osipi, it was my understanding that the more private communion service early in the morning is also at St. Mary Magdalene. It's the reason we get two sets of pictures on Christmas.
With that said, I'd expect that the parish priest visited her privately to administer Communion since, as far as I've ever seen, a home visit is a normal service that's available to any sick parishioner who's unable to make it to church. At least it is in the RC church.
It has only been five days since Christmas. She was obviously quite ill to miss church. She isn't someone vain enough to to miss church as she doesn't want ohotos of a red nose. She takes church very seriously. It was obviously a very severe cold. At her age that is a danger for pneumonia. I guess it is possible she is fully recovered, but not a stretch to think she is still recovering. She may go to church this weekend, even if not fully recovered, if she is making progress.
Yes I have seen on some occasions, not all, members of the RF attending the lower key earlier service, which I imagine would be relatively short, possibly followed by a blessing.
Do the family leave the second service ahead of it's commumion service? They obviously leave before everyone else, which you would expect anyway.