Queen pulls out of Remembrance Sunday events with sprained back

In last-minute change of plan, Prince Charles steps in to lay wreath on her behalf at the Cenotaph

The Queen was absent from Remembrance Sunday commemorations on Sunday after spraining her back, leaving other members of the royal family to honour the UK’s war dead in public.

The monarch, 95, had been under doctors’ orders to rest for almost a month after spending a night in hospital in October, but, until the last minute, was expected to attend a service at the Cenotaph in London on Sunday.

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Source: The Guardian