Although she was delivered by caesarean section, she wasn’t born in a hospital but at her grandparents’ London house, 17 Bruton Street.
Isn’t ceasarean major surgery? What kind of facilities did grandpa have, any way?
A pocket knife and a bottle of brandy can be quite useful. 
She wears a less formal Coronet on other occasions, iirc.
Hospitals weren’t very advanced in 1926. Packing some supplies into a van to perform surgery in a discreet private location wouldn’t have been as hard as it would be now. Even 25 years later, in 1951, King George VI had a lung removed at Buckingham Palace.
Just a guess, but I would imagine that all royal residences have some sort of modern medical facilities available, even if nothing more than a small infirmary that will do until help arrives that can transport to a better-equipped hospital. We hear about the art galleries and the private apartments and the dining rooms and the grand reception salons, but we never hear about the other mundane facilities that the royal residences must necessarily contain, such as garages, kitchens, staff quarters; and undoubtedly, infirmaries.
There are a lot of live-in staff who may also need medical care at various levels.
Werewolves of London again.
I did not know that! I just assumed that the very pregnant Queen Mother was loaded into an ambulance, and taken to the nearest hospital. It sounds like they at least had the basic tools needed to perform the procedure, and of course they would have had anesthesia available, since chloroform and ether were still commonly used for obstetric analgesia even for vaginal deliveries. Plus, in the pre-antibiotic era, post-operative infections were a huge problem, especially in hospitals, and little could be done beyond symptomatic treatment.
(I don’t know the details, but my oldest uncle was born at home in 1930, and his birth was extremely difficult and had Grandma been in a hospital - the nearest one was about 15 miles away, over icy roads - she would have had a c-section. My other uncle and mother were born in that hospital, as it turned out without complications.)
I’m glad they convinced the Queen to cancel the trip to Glasgow. She has to slow down before it’s too late.
There’s more …
Looks like an energy conservation measure for the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday (14th Nov), even if she has already passed on the active roles to others
My Mother used to quote something that Edith Bunker once said on All in the Family
(paraphrasing)
I can imagine the Queen of England brushing her teeth, but I can’t imagine her spiiting it out.
She did miss the Cenotaph ceremony. A statement says she has strained her back.
It’s sad when someone as old as the Queen starts failing. She was always a class act and I wish her well.
She was rearranging the palace furniture? 
I hope extended rest will allow her to make some public appearances.
She is indeed a class act. She is also supposedly a bright and funny lady who is reported to enjoy some of the same British sitcoms that I do. I may have told this story before, but years ago when she visited Canada and was doing a meet-and-greet, she was introduced to a young lady and extended her hand. Protocol is that you’re not supposed to touch the Queen on your own accord, but when she extends her hand, you take it. So the young woman shook her hand, chatted briefly with the Queen, and the Queen moved on. But there’s more.
What the crowd and photographers did not see, as the young lady revealed later, is that when she stepped forward and took the Queen’s hand, she (the young lady) tripped over her long ball gown and was about to fall headlong. As she described it, with incredible presence of mind the Queen grasped her hand “in an iron grip” and held her upright, preventing a terrible embarrassment for the young lady and maintaining the utmost decorum, with the incident invisible to all.
The Queen was also once pranked by a Quebec radio DJ who impersonated then-PM Jean Chretien, who along the way asked if they could converse in French, to which the Queen obliged, and demonstrated excellent fluency in French. The real Prime Minister was incensed and afterwards apologized profusely to the Queen, who waved it away and took it all in good humour. And at no point was she goaded into saying anything stupid or embarrassing.
The Queen represents the kind of class that we can only dream of in our politicians.
Of course, you have to keep in mind that she has the advantage that she’s not a politician.
Our (in the UK) politicians could use some of that class, too!
I didn’t realize that I had something in common with both Bill Clinton and the Queen. I was also born breech (and, as my late father used to say, I’ve been showing my ass ever since).
Of course, you have to keep in mind that she has the advantage that she’s not a politician.
Which is not to say that she isn’t politically astute (or at least her advisers are on her behalf,).
I don’t know if he was breech, just that he was delivered by c-section.