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The Queen has a profound faith and she misses not being able to carry out the daily rituals she has been following since her youth, a source close to the monarch has claimed. They told People magazine: “Her Christian faith means so much to her, and those rituals of going to church on Sunday and praying in chapel are not happening.” 

When in Windsor, Sandringham or Balmoral, the Queen is regularly seen arriving to church for the Sunday service and any other Christian festivity.

She is often accompanied by members of the Royal Family visiting her.

In March, ahead of their last public engagement at Westminster Abbey, the Queen invited Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to attend Sunday service with her at Windsor.

The Queen isn’t just a fervent Christian but has also been the Defender of the Faith since 1952. 

The Queen has been self-isolating at Windsor Castle since March 19, when she was last spotted in public leaving Buckingham Palace with her corgis.

Her husband of 72 years, Prince Philip, is with the Queen, as he was helicoptered at the Berkshire castle from his cottage in Sandringham also in mid-March.

While the monarch is missing her routine, she has quickly adapted to the new way of living imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a royal historian.

Royal biographer Robert Lacey told People: “She feels the poignancy, but that does not turn into depression or defeat.

“She sees it in the bigger context of her religious faith and of a God who holds her and her family in his hands.

“It is the solid and simple faith that sustains the Queen.”

Ms Lacey also praised the Queen for being able to take inspiration from her personal history and the one of the country to support the UK at this time.

Speaking about the Queen’s first speech during this pandemic, the historian said: “She has always had this historical perspective about life, and now she embodies history.

“It was interesting that she made the parallels with 1940 and then went on to explain that it is now a different sort of international struggle.

“It was sober and realistic, but there was a grounded optimism to it.” 

The Queen delivered two speech over the past few weeks.

In April, the monarch urged Britons to be faithful and confident in the knowledge the virus would be defeated thanks to the common effort of the countries involved in the search for a cure and vaccine.

In her speech, she mentioned her first-ever national address in 1940.

Then, speaking to British children forced to leave their homes and seek refuge in the countryside, the 14-year-old heir apparent urged her listeners to be brave.

In her more recent speech, the Queen said: “We, as children, spoke from here at Windsor to children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent away for their own safety. 

“Today, once again, many will feel a painful sense of separation from their loved ones.

“But now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right thing to do.

“While we have faced challenges before, this one is different.

“This time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour, using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal.

“We will succeed – and that success will belong to every one of us.”   

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