comfort. since the duke of edinburgh s death. rather less than that. so this is a family which has suffered one death quite recently, and which is now having to deal with the illness and the declining health, as we understand it at the moment, of, as you say, their mother or their grandmother. it is perfectly possible that she will recover from this, or perhaps not recover, but that she will get over whatever issueit that she will get over whatever issue it is that has because the doctors to speak on the way that they have, so we must again stress that we don t know what the true situation is. we are merely anticipating and expecting that the palace will feel it necessary to say something. but as you say, at the heart of this is a family which is providing comfort to the queen, and one must hope that that is the situation that is taking place within balmoral castle at the moment. nick, thank you. the time is 6:01pm. if you arejoining us here on bbc news, we are reporting the
it, parliament below it. a point about the head of state, and a striking one as well. i travelled recently to the g7 summit in bavaria and then on the nato defence alliance summit in madrid, and part of the formulation of the language of the formulation of the language of those events is that they are gatherings of heads of state and government, and that matters, because of course, in the uk system, we have a head of government in liz truss, the prime minister, and we have a head of state in her majesty, the queen, and that distinction between the two, is so pivotal to how the uk system operates. chris, thank you again. chris mason, our political editor, with the latest for us in downing street. from downing street, let s go to windsor, because windsor, of course, dominated by the great castle, and windsor, i think it s fair to say, as our understanding goes, is the queen s favourite residence, though she loves balmoral as well. but at