The Queen has been spotted driving around Sandringham,
her country estate in Norfolk where she has been spending a few
days on a private break.
Buckingham Palace confirmed last week that she would be
travelling to Norfolk from Scotland and on Monday she was pictured in the
passenger seat of her Range Rover as she was chauffeured around her estate.
The monarch, 96, appeared in good spirits and was seen in
her more casualwear, donning a shirt, sunglasses, a pair of pearl earrings and
no hat as she normally would for official public engagements.
Last week was a particularly busy one for the Queen, who
made three major public appearances in Scotland in celebration of Holyrood
Week, also known as Royal Week. Fans were thrilled to see Her Majesty in good
spirits as she carried out the engagements at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, her
official residence in Edinburgh.
On Thursday, she attended the Reddendo
Parade alongside her son Prince Charles. The ceremony saw more than 300
officers and archers from the Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland parade in front
of the royals. Her Majesty watched the action from a chair while Charles
greeted members of the parade and shook hands with some of the archers’ presents.
On Tuesday, the Queen watched another parade in
the palace gardens. This time as head of the Armed Forces in the UK, she looked
on as the army, the navy and the air force took part in the military spectacle.
And at the start of Holyrood Week, the Queen also attended
the Ceremony of the Keys with the Earl and Countess of Wessex. As part of the
tradition, the Queen was symbolically handed the keys to Edinburgh city by the
Lord Provost and tradition dictates she then returns them, entrusting their
safekeeping to Edinburgh’s elected officials.
