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'Exhausted' Queen to miss 'very tough' COP26 global summit

Royal commentators speak about how "disappointed" the Queen will be after pulling out of the COP26 global summit in Glasgow. Royal biographer Hugo Vickers points out that she is 95 and therefore a "sensible decision", but her absence at what Boris Johnson calls as a "very tough" summit will leave the UK without what historian Sir Anthony Seldon describes as her "enormous convening power".