Slip And Fall Injury For Queen Mum
The Queen Mother broke her collarbone in a fall at her home, her office said Monday.
The 100-year-old mother of Queen Elizabeth II was treated by doctors at her home, Clarence House, and was not hospitalized.
"Her majesty is reasonably comfortable and has canceled her engagements for the time being," said a Clarence House spokeswoman, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Queen Mother was out of bed and sitting up with her arm in a sling, according to the spokeswoman.
The Queen Mother is the widow of George VI, who died in 1952.
The spokeswoman said the Queen Mother was on her own when she fell. "Had there been someone with her they probably could have stopped her fall," she said. "There is always someone close by but Her Majesty has a life of her own and is not kept under constant watch."
Despite her age, the Queen Mother has kept an active public schedule and had planned this Thursday to pay her traditional visit to a memorial to Britain's war dead in the churchyard of St. Margaret's in Westminster.
The oldest member of the British royal family is beloved by many of her subjects for having chosen to tough it out during World War II and remain in England, despite suggestions that she and her daughters evacuate to North America.
She was in Buckingham Palace when it was bombed in 1940 and as the war continued, she and the King visited the troops and bombed-out areas throughout Great Britain, especially hospitals and factories.
Earlier this year, there were months of celebrations honoring the Queen Mother to mark her 100th birthday, which was August 4.
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