Back injury may have put Queen in a corset
October 27, 2006 
The Queen has had to cancel a planned official visit to Arsenal's new football stadium after injuring her back.
Her Majesty is understood to have strained a muscle in her lower back and has been ordered to "slow down" by her doctors.
Buckingham Palace confirmed that the visit to Highbury on Tuesday, for which Prince Philip replaced her, involved climbing stairs and would have been too strenuous for her.
Speaking to the Daily Express a courtier said: "Doctors have told her to slow down in order for the back to heal properly.
"She has kept going with the back strain for the last two weeks through her recent tour of the Baltic but she has been ordered to take it easy."
However, Dr Ian Drysdale from of the British College of Osteopathic Medicine, said that keeping the affected area warm and strapping it tightly would be among the most effective forms of treatment, fuelling speculation that the Queen may be wearing a corset, though one of a medicinal rather than a sensual nature.
The palace has refused to comment on the exact nature of her treatment.
No decisions have been made about the Queen's future movements, but her planned appearance at next month's Remembrance Sunday service has been called in to doubt.
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