What about earlier, during the reign of Victoria? As is well know she hated spending time in London and prioritized her own comfort and convenience even in the face of public criticism. Did she ever make a potential PM travel to Balmoral or Osborne to kiss hands?
(None of this is meant AT ALL as a criticism of the present Queen. She obviously has very genuine mobility issues and is 96, an age far beyond what any of her predecessors ever reached, and air travel makes the trip from London to Balmoral a perfectly reasonable request for the ministers in question.)
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