The Queen had a “lovely” time at Thursday’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations but found the day “very tiring”, the Duchess of Cambridge is said to have told an attendee at a Guildhall reception.
Gill Smallwood from Bolton spoke with Kate on Friday after a service of thanksgiving at the nearby St Paul’s Cathedral.
Ms Smallwood said she had asked Kate how the Queen was doing.
She told the PA news agency: “She (Kate) said, ‘yes, she was fine, it was just very tiring yesterday, and she (the Queen) had had a lovely, lovely time’.”
She said Kate told her that Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte also “had a lovely time” at Thursday’s celebrations, during which all three Cambridge children appeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony for a flypast.
The Queen will not attend the Epsom Derby on Saturday but is expected to watch the sporting event on television at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.
It comes after Her Majesty was unable to attend the service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday due to mobility issues.
