Queen Elizabeth will not attend climate summit on Monday.
The Cop26 climate change reception will hold in Glasgow, Scotland.
Queen Elizabeth spent a night in hospital in London last week.
The 95-year-old sovereign was due to travel to Scotland for the high-profile engagement on November 1 to greet world leaders from 120 countries including US President Joe Biden.
Aides had hoped that Queen Elizabeth would be able to lead the Royal Family at the summit, either in person or via videolink. And earlier today she returned to work at Windsor Castle where she is resting on doctors’ orders for the first time since last week.
However, a Palace spokesman said that the head of state has ‘regretfully decided that she will no longer travel to Glasgow to attend the evening reception’.
A statement said: ‘Following advice to rest, The Queen has been undertaking light duties at Windsor Castle.
‘Her Majesty has regretfully decided that she will no longer travel to Glasgow to attend the evening reception of Cop26 on Monday, 1st November. Her Majesty is disappointed not to attend the reception but will deliver an address to the assembled delegates via a recorded video message.’
Queen Elizabeth faced preliminary tests in hospital on October 20 during her first overnight stay at the private King Edward VII’s Hospital in eight years.
She has been resting following medical advice to cancel her two-day trip to Northern Ireland.
The Queen had a busy schedule of engagements in the first weeks of October following her return from Balmoral.
Her hospital stay was kept a secret and only confirmed by the Palace when it was revealed by a newspaper.
Last week the BBC’s veteran Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell faced a backlash last night after questioning whether Buckingham Palace undermined public trust by failing to reveal the Queen had been admitted to hospital.
In forthright comments, Mr Witchell said that journalists and the public had not been ‘given the complete picture’.
He added: ‘The problem, it seems to me, is that rumour and misinformation always thrive in the absence of proper, accurate and trustworthy information.’
But his remarks provoked criticism online. ‘Nicholas Witchell is honestly so infuriating,’ one Royal watcher wrote on Twitter. ‘The Queen is 95 and like most her age, she’ll be in and out of hospital for various tests because that’s what happens at that age no matter how fit you are. She doesn’t need to disclose her every move, let her have some dignity.’
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Another Twitter user wrote: ‘He’s a pompous a***, full of his own self importance. Bring back Jennie Bond. She was classy.’
A third asked: ‘Since when has the Queen been answerable to Nicholas Witchell?’
A BBC stalwart, Mr Witchell, 68, famously provoked royal displeasure in 2005 when, during a press conference in the Swiss ski resort of Klosters, he asked Prince Charles about his forthcoming marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles.
Under his breath, Charles was heard to mutter to Princes William and Harry: ‘I can’t bear that man. I mean, he’s so awful, he really is.’
Queen Elizabeth’s return to duties today comes after it emerged she has not been able to enjoy her daily walk with her dogs for almost a week after being told to rest by doctors.
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