No sign of Philip as Queen goes home by train

IT HAD not been the peaceful winter break she had expected, and the Queen might have been forgiven she breathing a sigh of relief as she set off back to London yesterday from her Norfolk estate.

She departed from Sandringham by train, as she usually does. Wearing a grey coat, black gloves and no hat, she was escorted into King’s Lynn station through a side entrance known as the Royal Gate.

She was not joined by the Duke

It was confirmed that the Duke, 97, had voluntarily surrendered his driving licence.

of Edinburgh as she boarded a Great Northern service for the capital.

It was her husband’s collision last month with a car carrying two women and a nine-monthold boy that had dominated her time in Norfolk. His Land Rover Freelander flipped over as he pulled out into a busy A road and the women were both injured, but the baby was unharmed.

At the weekend, it was confirmed that the Duke, who is 97, had voluntarily surrendered his driving licence.

The Crown Prosecution Service is considering whether to bring charges against him.

PICTURES: PA WIRE. BACK TO WORK: The Queen arrives at King’s Lynn railway station in Norfolk to board a train to return to London, after spending the Christmas period at Sandringham House in north Norfolk.