Buckingham Palace this afternoon said her Majesty had been in touch to offer her best wishes.
The Royal Family tweeted this lunchtime: “Earlier today The Queen sent a message to Carrie Symonds and to the Johnson family.
“Her Majesty said they were in her thoughts and that she wished the Prime Minister a full and speedy recovery.”
The news comes after the PM was rushed into intensive care last night – and has spent the night there.
This morning No10 said he was “stable” and “in good spirits” – and was not using a ventilator.
They said he continued to ave oxygen but is still able to breathe unassisted.
Earlier it was also revealed that the PM and Queen will no longer have their weekly audience for the forseeable future.
Before he was admitted into the ICU last night Boris passed over some responsibilities to the First Secretary of State, Dominic Raab, but that won’t include the audience with the Queen, No10 confirmed today.
The pair have been speaking on the phone in recent weeks as the coronavirus crisis grips the nation.
The PM was taken to hospital at around the same time as Her Majesty gave her address to the country on Sunday evening – watched by millions.
Her Majesty said the UK “will succeed” in its fight against Covid-19, in the rallying message to Britain.
In a rare address the Queen thanked Brits for following government rules to stay at home and praised those “coming together to help others”.
She also thanked key workers, saying “every hour” of work” brings us closer to a return to more normal times”.
“While we have faced challenges before, this one is different,” the Queen said.
“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.
“We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.”
The Queen, now 93, also said the “painful sense of separation from their loved ones” that social distancing was causing for people reminded her of the experience child evacuees had during the Second World War.
“Now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right thing to do,” she said.
The Prime Minister has had more oxygen support but has NOT needed a ventilator or any more breathing help, it was revealed this lunchtime.
he has not got any worse in the last 12 hours and is able to breathe unassisted. He does not have pneumonia.
In a joint statement from Downing Street and St Thomas’ hospital, they said: “The PM has been stable overnight and remains in good spirits.
“He is receiving standard oxygen treatment and is breathing without any other assistance.
“He has not required mechanical ventilation or non-invasive respiratory support.”
The Queen is being kept up to date fully on Boris’ condition, but there will be no weekly audiences on the phone or with Mr Raab, Downing Street said.
Boris was transferred last night after he started finding it difficult to breathe.
Doctors have prepared a ventilation unit to be ready by his bedside should his condition worsen – and No10 has stressed there is more than enough capacity.
It is not known whether the PM is well enough to be taking phone-calls, but has not spoken to Dominic Raab, his defacto deputy.
Another update on the PM’s health is expected later today.
The PM needed four litres of oxygen, sources at the hospital told The Times.
The normal threshold for intensive care is 15 litres, suggesting that he was in better health than other patients may be.
However, as recently as December 2018 the PM admitted he weighed 16 and a half stone, which would put him into an obese category.
It’s believed he’s lost a significant chunk of weight since then.
