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| Queen cancels Palace medals event | Queen cancels Palace medals event |
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| The Queen has withdrawn from a medals ceremony at Buckingham Palace because of "continuing discomfort" in her back. | The Queen has withdrawn from a medals ceremony at Buckingham Palace because of "continuing discomfort" in her back. |
| She had been due to present the George Cross to an army bomb disposal officer badly injured in Iraq, but the Princess Royal will now take her place. | |
| The 80-year-old monarch was also forced to cancel several appointments last week because of her back problems. | |
| She will travel to Crawley in Surrey on Friday, but Prince Phillip will carry out some duties there by himself. | |
| The palace said the Queen would have a busy itinerary in the morning, but she would leave before a planned lunch with pupils at a community college and tour of a sheltered housing scheme. | |
| A palace spokeswoman said: "At this stage there are no plans to cancel engagements next week, we are reviewing things on a daily basis." | |
| The Queen strained a muscle while holidaying at Balmoral during the summer. | |
| The Duke of Edinburgh stood in for his wife at the opening Arsenal's new multimillion-pound Emirates Stadium last week. | |
| He told staff and players that she was "very disappointed" not to be there. | |
| She has been told to scale down her schedule by doctors after returning from her recent first trip to the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. | She has been told to scale down her schedule by doctors after returning from her recent first trip to the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. |