Why 'Frail' Queen Elizabeth, Reportedly Too Weak To Walk Her Corgis, May Never Meet Baby Lilibet

Palace staff has cited Queen Elizabeth II’s ailing condition as to why she pulled out of the Commonwealth Day service to be held on Monday, saying the 95-year-old monarch has been too frail to walk her beloved corgis after spending a night in a hospital in October.

According to sources, the royal family was worried about how “comfortable” Her Majesty would feel traveling to London from Windsor and spending up to an hour at the event, according to MyLondon.

Meanwhile, there are now fears the Queen, who has owned more than 30 corgis in her lifetime, would not be able to walk her pooches again amid a series of medical scares over the past few months, including when she sprained her back and when she caught coronavirus.

Aides now take her two corgis and dorgi for daily walks as dogs remain very much part of Windsor life, a senior royal insider noted.

“She is not well enough. The Queen usually turned to her beloved corgis in times of crisis and stress and took them out almost every day after Philip fell ill and then died last year,” another source claimed per The Sun. “They are an enormous source of solace, so it is a real shame.”

Meanwhile, as the late Prince Philip’s March 29 memorial services loom, Prince Harry confirmed on Friday that he would miss the affair due to safety concerns.

The Duke of Sussex has been pushing for hired security when his family visits the U.K. and is currently entangled in a dispute with Home Affairs.

“The Duke [of Sussex] will not be returning to the U.K. in late March, but hopes to visit his grandmother as soon as possible,” the Prince said in the statement, Page Six noted. This also means that the highly-anticipated first in-person meeting of the Queen and her namesake, baby Lilibet, is again up in the air.

Royal critics were quick to note that Harry only gave Her Majesty a 15 minutes notice before his public announcement. His relationship with his grandmother greatly deteriorated after he and Meghan Markle left their royal duties in 2020. The Sussexes now reside in California.

Harry biographer Angela Levin would also slam the Duke for snubbing senior members of the royal family.

“He has snubbed the Duke of Edinburgh, but he is snubbing the Queen,” said Levin, who noted that the brush-off is especially egregious when the Queen is still “grieving” the loss of her husband of nearly 75 years, who died on April 9, 2021, at age 99.