Queen Elizabeth II looked on healthful form Thursday as she met face-to-face with Switzerland’s president, inside the build-up to  UK-extensive celebrations for her Platinum Jubilee in early June.

The monarch back to Windsor Castle after every week-long damage on her Sandringham estate in Norfolk, Japanese England, wherein she marked her 96th birthday in private on April 21.

The audience with President Ignazio Cassis become her first authentic engagement considering that then, she or he held it in person in place of with the aid of video.

Smiling broadly for photographs with Cassis and his wife Paola, the queen stood without her walking stick, after complaining of mobility problems in recent months.

Cassis met separately with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and the leaders agreed a joint statement to work towards a UK-Swiss trade deal after Britain’s Brexit departure from the European Union.

Johnson’s government prorogued parliament on Thursday ahead of local elections on May 5.

A new session of parliament will convene on May 10 — normally a grand state occasion when the queen presents her government’s forthcoming legislative agenda.

Aides have said the queen’s attendance at the state opening of parliament will only be confirmed nearer the time, after she was forced to miss a traditional Easter service.

Elizabeth has missed only two state openings during her long reign, in 1959 and 1963, when she was pregnant with Prince Andrew and then Prince Edward.

Andrew, the Duke of York, has been casting a shadow on his mother in what is meant to be a festive length main as much as a four-day weekend of jubilee activities marking her seventieth yr at the throne.

On Wednesday, Andrew becomes stripped of his repute as a freeman of the northern English city of York because of his institutions with convicted intercourse offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.