Palace denies Queen's abdication rumours
Buckingham Palace has been forced to deny rumours the Queen is to stand down in her Christmas Day broadcast, after a bookmaker said it was suspending bet following a flurry of “unusual” activity.
Coral said it had been offering odds of 10-1 that the monarch would stand down during the address, which goes out at 3pm in every Commonwealth nation.
A spokesperson for the Queen said that it was the Palace's policy “not to comment on any bookmakers' work”.
And while there have been a number of royal abdications involving other European monarchies in recent years, the source pointed to the Queen's oath on her coronation that “whether long or short, her entire life would be in service of the nation”.
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