The British Queen plays it safe. The Queen has canceled her family’s traditional Christmas get-together. What is the reason?
Windsor – Because of the rapidly spreading omicron variant of the coronavirus in Great Britain, Queen Elizabeth II (95) has canceled her traditional pre-Christmas family reunion. The palace announced on Thursday.
It was “too many people’s Christmas plans at stake,” it was said as a statement from palace circles.
Like many older Britons, the Queen is now likely to have been vaccinated against the corona virus at least three times. Nevertheless, the omicron variant of the coronavirus is currently giving politicians a headache in the UK. In London it is already considered to be predominant. According to government estimates, hundreds of thousands are infected every day.
Failure for the second time in a row
Usually the Queen’s children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and cousins come together for lunch in Buckingham Palace the week before Christmas. The family reunion had to be canceled last year due to the pandemic. This year it should have taken place at Windsor Castle, as the “Sun” reported.
The Queen spends the festive season at her country estate in Sandringham, East England. Here, too, she is usually visited by different parts of the family. This year marks the first time since their wedding in 1947 that she has to spend the holidays without her husband Prince Philip, who died in April at the age of 99. dpa
