Queen Elizabeth's final diary entry revealed
The final dairy entry of Queen Elizabeth, written in the days before her death, has been revealed for the first time.
Featuring in Robert Hardman’s biography on King Charles, Charles III: New King, New Court, the final entry in Her Majesty's personal diary delves into the last days of her life.
During her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth kept a private diary to record key events: a tradition she upheld until her final days.
The passage, which was penned on September 6th, was made at Balmoral just two days before she died at age 96.
She wrote that her private secretary, Edward Young, had visited her, and shared some highlights about swearing in new Privy Council members.
“It transpires that she was still writing it at Balmoral two days before her death,” Hardman wrote.
“Her last entry was as factual and practical as ever. It could have been describing another normal working day starting in the usual way — ‘Edward came to see me’ — as she noted the arrangements which her private secretary, Sir Edward Young, had made for the swearing-in of the new ministers of the Truss administration.”
The Queen’s final engagement was asking Liz Truss to form a government after the resignation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
According to The Telegraph UK, Queen Elizabeth's diary-writing habit is one she passed on to King Charles, with a senior courtier revealing that Charles “doesn’t write great narrative diaries like she used to,” but he does “scribble down his recollections and reflections”.
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