THE Queen has postponed an event next week following the advice of Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.
The Diplomatic Reception at Windsor Castle was expected to take place on Wednesday however will not be going ahead as planned.
In a statement, Buckingham Palace said: “The Queen has accepted the Foreign Secretary’s advice that the Diplomatic Reception at Windsor on Wednesday 2 March should be postponed.”
The Queen was due to host the event which would have seen more than 500 members of the Diplomatic Corps attend.
Held annually, the event normally sees 1,000 guests however was stripped back to be a smaller lounge event.
Neither the Queen’s office nor the foreign ministry has so far given a reason for the postponement, although the monarch was forced to cancel virtual events in recent days due to coronavirus symptoms.
The 95-year-old had hoped to emerge from her Covid-19 isolation for the Diplomatic Reception at Windsor Castle next Wednesday.
But the postponement was “due to the current circumstances in Ukraine”, a source told the Daily Mail.
Despite having a sore throat and blocked up nose caused by her “mild cold-like” symptoms, it was looking likely she would be well enough to attend.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is due be out of the country “shortly” in order to conduct “a round of shuttle diplomacy across Europe and the United States”.
The foreign office is also at the forefront of Britain’s response to the Ukraine crisis.
It comes as Boris Johnson has set out nine ways Britain is supporting Ukraine including a crackdown on oligarchs and training troops.
The Prime Minister’s support measures include sanctions on President Putin, Sergey Lavrov, oligarchs, five Russian banks, more than 100 firms and Belarus.
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