Queen Elizabeth’s Final Moments Before Her Death Revealed in New Book
Queen Elizabeth’s Final Moments Before Her Death Revealed in New Book
Intimate details about the Queen’s final moments have come to light in a new book by royal biographer Robert Hardman
More than one year after Queen Elizabeth’s death, new details have emerged, casting a revealing light on the circumstances surrounding the iconic monarch’s death.
In an excerpt from royal biographer Robert Hardman’s new book, The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy (out Jan. 18), in Daily Mail on Friday, the author shares a memo of the monarch’s final moments from her private secretary, Sir Edward Young, who was at Balmoral when the Queen died on Sept. 8, 2022.
“Very peaceful. In her sleep. Slipped away. Old age. She wouldn’t have been aware of anything. No pain,” Young notes in the previously unseen memo that’s now part of the Royal Archives, according to Daily Mail.
The outlet also revealed that while there were concerns for the Queen’s well-being at the time, her death occurred with such abruptness that King Charles (then Prince Charles) found himself hastily boarding a helicopter for an eleventh-hour journey to Balmoral. En route, he read his “London Bridge” notes, a meticulously prepared protocol for the aftermath of her death.