London:

Britain’s Queen Camilla will miss Remembrance Day events to recover from a chest infection, but hopes to return to public duties early next week, Buckingham Palace said on Saturday.

Camilla, wife of King Charles, pulled out of planned engagements this week after suffering a chest infection for which her doctors advised her to rest.

The 77-year-old will miss the annual Festival of Remembrance at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Saturday and the main Remembrance Day ceremony on Sunday.

The ceremony at the Cenotaph war memorial takes place on the Sunday nearest November 11 to mark the end of the First World War and pays tribute to those who lost their lives in the conflict.

“Following doctors’ advice to ensure a full recovery from a seasonal chest infection and to protect others from any potential risk, Her Majesty will not be attending this weekend’s Remembrance events,” a palace spokesman said. adding that he would mark the occasion privately at home. .

Princess Kate, 42, who is gradually returning to public engagements after preventative cancer treatment this year, will attend the Remembrance events alongside her husband Prince William, Charles and other members of the royal family.

The Princess of Wales said in September that she had finished chemotherapy, but her road to a full recovery would be long.

At the time, she said she would be making a handful of public engagements later in the year. Her last public appearance was in October, when she met the grieving families of three young girls who were killed at a dance class in north-west England.

Charles, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, which was diagnosed in February, recently visited Australia and Samoa.

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