The cameras in the British Parliament monitored the moment officials received the royal palace’s remarks about the health of the late Queen Elizabeth.
Prime Minister Liz Truss and Labor Deputy Leader Angela Rayner received notes on paper during a session in the House of Commons on Thursday informing them of the Queen’s health.
Video from the Parliament session shows that Rainer received a written note during a speech to Labor leader Keir Starmer.
This was the moment that Labour’s Deputy Leader Angela Rayner was passed a note, believed to be about the Queen’s medical condition, during a Commons debate
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Trass and Rayner learned during a discussion about the power crisis that the Queen was under medical supervision at Balmoral.
The Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, also received a piece of paper to let him know the news, according to The Independent.
The newspaper pointed out that some officials noticed what was happening and noticed that “something was wrong in Parliament (…) something strange was happening in the House of Commons.”
About 20 minutes later, Buckingham Palace told the public that “the Queen’s doctors are concerned about the health of Her Majesty,” adding that she is currently under medical supervision.
Shortly after that, she left the House of Commons, and was quick to speak out to express her concerns about the Queen’s health.
Terrace said the entire country was deeply concerned by the news.
“My thoughts – and the thinking of people across the UK – are with Her Majesty and her family at this time,” she added.
Queen Elizabeth II, who held the throne for the longest time in the history of the United Kingdom, died at the age of 96, Buckingham Palace said Thursday.
Her eldest son, Charles, 73, automatically succeeds her, in accordance with centuries-old protocol, to start a new chapter for the royal family, after the reign of the queen, who broke the record by ascending the throne for seventy years.