Queen Elizabeth II won’t attend the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday for the first time in nearly 60 years, and has tapped Prince Charles to handle her speech.
“The Queen continues to experience episodic mobility problems, and in consultation with her doctors has reluctantly decided that she will not attend,” Buckingham Palace said Monday, according to People.
It will be only the third time in her monarchy that Queen Elizabeth has missed the annual event, where the government goes over its intentions for upcoming legislature. She last missed the ceremony in 1963, the BBC reports.
