Queen sprains back, won’t attend Remembrance Sunday event

By SYLVIA HUI
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has sprained her back and will not attend the Remembrance Sunday service in central London to remember Britain’s war dead. The monarch is “disappointed” to miss the event, officials said. The service had been expected to be the  95-year-old monarch’s first public appearance after canceling events in recent weeks on doctors’ advice. The queen spent a night in a London hospital last month after being admitted for tests. On Oct. 29, the palace said she had been told to rest for two weeks. She canceled plans to attend the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, but sent a video message.