Late Queen’s final personal diary entry surfaces

IN LONDON

The precocious Queen Elizabeth’s last diary entry, written conscionable earlier her death, has surfaced successful a caller book.

Details of the note, penned connected September 6, person been published successful Robert Hardman’s biography connected King Charles, Charles III: New King, New Court, which delves into the past days of the erstwhile monarch’s life.

During her 70-year reign, the monarch kept a backstage diary to grounds cardinal events – a contented she upheld until her last days.

According to the author, who recovered the handwritten entries portion doing probe for his book, the precocious Queen’s last introduction was made astatine Balmoral, wherever she died connected September 8, 2022.

She wrote that her backstage secretary, Edward Young, had visited her, and shared immoderate highlights astir swearing successful caller Privy Council members.

“It transpires that she was inactive penning it astatine Balmoral 2 days earlier her death,” Hardman wrote.

“Her past introduction was arsenic factual and applicable arsenic ever. It could person been describing different mean moving time starting successful the accustomed mode — ‘Edward came to spot me’ — arsenic she noted the arrangements which her backstage secretary, Sir Edward Young, had made for the swearing-in of the caller ministers of the Truss administration.”

The Queen’s last engagement was asking Liz Truss to signifier a authorities aft the resignation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Meanwhile the precocious monarch’s diary wont is 1 she reportedly passed connected to her son.

A elder courtier antecedently told the UK’s Telegraph that portion King Charles “doesn’t constitute large communicative diaries similar helium utilized to,” helium does “scribble down his recollections and reflections”.

The root besides noted that his caller regal benignant is “not rather arsenic self-analytical, humorous and readable arsenic the diary helium kept arsenic a prince.”