British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Queen Elizabeth was "very well" when he had an audience with her last week, after the 95-year-old monarch missed a remembrance event on Sunday due to a back sprain.

"I know that everybody will be wanting to offer their best wishes to her majesty the Queen, and I just wanted to reassure everybody by saying that I did see the Queen for an audience last week, on Wednesday in Windsor, and she's very well," Johnson said at a news conference on Sunday (November 14).

Britain's Queen Elizabeth missed Sunday's Remembrance Day Service at the Cenotaph due to a sprained back, extending the 95-year-old monarch's absence from public life after she was ordered to rest following a stay in hospital last month.

A Buckingham Palace source said the sprain was unrelated to the unspecified ailment that caused the queen's hospital visit, calling it an "incredibly unfortunate coincidence."

But Elizabeth's absence from an engagement she sees as one of the most significant of the year will increase concerns about her health.

The ceremony would have been the queen's first in-person public engagement since she was advised to rest after spending a night in hospital on Oct. 20-21.

Source: Reuters