The Queen’s Balmoral audience with Liz Truss was a sign of changing times
msn.comwelcomed the 15th prime minister of her 70-year reign. But in others, Her Majesty’s audience with Liz Truss, as she invited the incoming Prime Minister to form a new government, was a sign of changing times.
For the first time, the Queen, 96, formally ushered in a new political era within the cosy confines of the green-carpeted drawing room at Balmoral, her Aberdeenshire estate, rather than at Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle.
Around two weeks ago, the decision was taken that both Boris Johnson and his successor would make the 1,000-mile round trip from London to Scotland because of the Queen’s ongoing mobility problems.
She is understood to have been advised not to travel, having reportedly endured “a change in the past few weeks” in her mobility, meaning she has been resting more.
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