THE Queen was accompanied by the Duke of York as she attended a Sunday church service on her Sandringham Estate this morning.

She was shielded from the cold in a camel-coloured coat, hat and black gloves as she arrived in a black Bentley and walked the short distance from the car to the entrance of St Peter church in Wolferton, Norfolk.

The church is just over a two-mile drive from Sandringham House, and dozens of well-wishers gathered behind a rope fence to see her arrive.

The Duke of Edinburgh, who was involved in a crash on Thursday afternoon, did not attend.

Norfolk police have said they have issued the duke with "suitable words of advice" after he was pictured driving a new Land Rover the day after the crash, but without wearing a seatbelt.

Philip has not attended services through the festive period, and was also absent from the royal family's traditional Christmas Day service at the church of St Mary Magdalene.