The Queen is on her way to Windsor Citadel by way of helicopter following a brief spoil at Sandringham as she continues her leisure forward amid her choice to be have compatibility for Remembrance Sunday this weekend.

The 95-year-old head of state underwent preliminary medical checks in hospital after cancelling a visit to Northern Ireland. She was reportedly ordered to rest for two weeks.

Buckingham Palace has said it is the Queen’s “firm intention” to attend the annual Remembrance Sunday wreath-laying service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall on Sunday to honour Britain’s war dead.

She pulled out of a trip to Northern Ireland and also missed the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.

The Queen, who lived through the Second World War as a teenager, is head of the armed forces and attaches great importance to the poignant Remembrance Sunday service, which this year falls on November 14 – the Prince of Wales’s 73rd birthday.

The monarch is already confirmed to be missing the annual Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday evening.

Concern for the head of state has been heightened, given her age, but she was well enough to travel by helicopter to Sandringham in Norfolk on November 4 for her long planned private weekend away, where she was seen, in her trademark off duty headscarf, being driven around the estate.