The queen greeted Liz Truss, her 15th prime minister and Britain’s third female prime minister, in an official meeting at Balmoral Castle on Tuesday.
Queen Elizabeth II has undertaken her first in-person engagement since July as she has been photographed meeting Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss on Tuesday.
The 96-year-old monarch’s health caused concern last week after it was announced that she would not travel to London’s Buckingham Palace to accept Boris Johnson’s resignation as Conservative Party leader and subsequently ask Truss to form a new government.
Traditionally this constitutional duty has been performed in the nation’s capital. Instead, it was announced that Johnson and his successor would travel to the queen’s Scottish estate of Balmoral where she spends the summer months.
The BBC reported that the decision to move the location of the meeting to Balmoral was made to « provide certainty for the new prime minister’s diary. » This relates to the queen’s not making decisions about public appearances or long journeys until the day in question owing to what Buckingham Palace has officially called « episodic mobility problems.
