After the festive season, the Queen usually stays in her Norfolk estate, Sandringham untill after the anniversary of her father’s death- George VI on 6 February.
Her Majesty has only been to Church each Sunday accompanied by members of her family and even had to cancel an annual meeting with Sandringham Women’s Institute last week.
According to HELLO!
The Queen will carry out her first public engagements of 2020 in Norfolk next week before she returns to London as she visits RAF Marham in King’s Lynn on Monday 3 February in her capacity as Honorary Air Commodore of the station.
Then on Wednesday 5 February, the Queen will open the new Wolferton Pumping Station, also in King’s Lynn, which protects the local area from flooding. Her Majesty’s father George VI opened the original pumping station in 1946, accompanied by his mother Queen Mary and his youngest daughter Princess Margaret.
Her Majesty has just reached a special milestone in her reign of the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. One social media user, Adrian Hilton, noted that the Queen has moved up to fourth place in the table of the world’s longest reigns, surpassing that of Austria-Hungary’s Franz Joseph I. Her current duration stands at 67 years and 355 days, putting her just behind K’inich Janaab’ Pakal, who reigned from 29 July 615 to 31 August 683 in the seventh-century Mayan city-state of Palenque.
