Queen’s New Year church service bid Her Majesty hoping to be well enough to f ollow tradition
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Dubbed the most secure coin in the world, its anti-counterfeiting THE Queen hopesh to make her firs first public appearanc appearance in more than 10 days as she r recovers from th the illness that plagued her Ch Christmas. Sourc Sources say Her Majesty will make a last-minu last-minute decision today on w whether to attend her usualus church service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandring Sandringham. She was struck d down with a “heavy cold” in mid mid-December which meant she missed the Christmas Day serv service for the first time in 30 years. But a source said: “It’s a tradition that the Queen attends features include its distinctive multisided shape and dual-metal design, with a gold-coloured outer ring and a silver-looking centre.
It also boasts a hologram-like image that looks like a £ symbol or a 1 when viewed from different church when she is at her Sandringham residence.
“It i s not an official engagement but she is the Governor of the Church of England and her faith is very important so it means a great deal to her to attend. She will be there if she can make it but that will not be known until the morning of the service.”
Her Majesty, 90, and husband Prince Philip, 95, have both been battling a “heavy cold” since before Christmas.
Over the festive period the Duke of Edinburgh was pictured making hi s way f r om Sandringham House to St Mary Magdalene Church for two services.
He was accompanied by Prince Charles, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Harry, the Earl of Wessex and Prince Andrew.
But the monarch was unable angles. The Mint will release 1.5 billion of the £1 coins, and a new 50p honouring Sir Isaac Newton.
There will be two new £2 coins, one with Jane Austen and the other marking World War One. All four pieces will be circulated in March.
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to attend, breaking a tradition that first began in 1998.
A team of doctors, under the supervision of Prof Huw Thomas, the Queen’s physician, have been helping her tackle the illness.
Buckingham Palace has refused to say when the monarch will return to public duties.
But a royal spokesman said: “The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh continue to recover from their heavy colds.”
The Queen and Prince Philip’s illness forced them to delay their festive trip to the Sandringham Estate by a day.
They cancelled a train service from King’s Cross to King’s Lynn and instead travelled the 112 miles to their Norfolk retreat by helicopter the next day.
Meanwhile Buckingham Palace was forced to deny a rumour the Queen had died after a fake news story spread over the internet.
A spoof BBC News Twitter account posted a message stating Her Majesty had passed away on Thursday.
Those who fell for the hoax vented their anger online.
Kat Calvin said: “It is so 2016 that we all immediately believed that The Queen was dead because it’s 2016.”
Christopher Campbell added: “I just fell for a fake BBC account announcing the death of Queen Elizabeth II because it seemed obvious with this year.”
BBC football pundit Gary Lineker confirmed: “The Queen is alive. Long live the Queen.”