One year ago, at 3:10 p.m. at Balmoral Castle, Dr. Douglas Glass, Royal Family Chemist in Scotland, signed the death certificate of Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Wilson, who died on 8 September “of old age” at age of 96 years. More than three hours later, at 6:30 p.m., the news will reach the world: Queen Elizabeth II, the beloved and longest-serving queen in British history, has passed away, and her son, Charles, is the new king. . Under UK law, the time of death is the time the certificate was signed, so we don’t know the actual time, or even the cause of her untimely death.
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the end
Despite his old age and his weakness manifested in Tire on September 6, when he handed over his fifteenth Prime Minister, Liz Truss, no one doubted that his end was imminent. Elizabeth had agreed to bring outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the new president to hand over power, a grueling appointment that she held for almost two hours. And she didn’t even give up awarding her historic communication secretary, Donald McCabe, the Royal Victorian Medal. On the seventh day, however, the virtual meeting with the Privy Council was cancelled, and the Queen’s private secretary, Sir Edward Young, telephoned Cabinet Secretary Simon Case to tell him that her Majesty was ill. The Queen herself was ill for some time: she lost her sight and hearing, was often disoriented, in constant pain and spent most of her time in a wheelchair. According to rumors, confirmed by biographer Giles Brandreth, she suffered from a serious bone disease and was taking strong painkillers. But Liz Truss was obsessed with her early government commitments, and she didn’t really believe they would imply the disappearance of sovereignty. However, she remembered that many of her clothes were still in the Greenwich house and she sent someone to look for her black clothes. None of her family members seemed concerned. On the evening of September 7, Princess Anne was at Balmoral, but she did not feel the need to abandon her commitment to charity the next morning. Charles was at Dumfries House, her much-loved Palladian villa in Ayrshire. He was organizing a dinner with Jenna Bush, the daughter of the former US president, who was supposed to interview the then-Duchess Camilla for NBC. She and her husband, Henry Hager, later recounted that the dinner took place in a quiet and pleasant atmosphere, and it did not bode well.
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The next morning, according to the Hajar couple, Carlo received a phone call at his office around 12:20 p.m. and everyone was told to be quiet. Right after that, he went outside and there was the sound of a helicopter landing to pick him and Camila up. At Northolt military airfield, not far from Windsor, he was waiting for a plane to leave with Prince William, Prince Andrew, Edward and Sofia of Wessex on board. The flight was scheduled to take off at 1:30 p.m., but the plane remained on the runway until 2:40 p.m., due to another family dispute. Prince Harry, who was in London with Meghan due to commitments, had asked William to drive him and his wife and publicly announced that they were going to Balmoral. William had called his father, who called Harry and told him that he was welcome, but Meghan’s presence was not welcome. Enraged, Harry finally charters a private jet, which leaves Luton at 5:30 pm and is still flying when the Queen’s death is announced to the world.
the last greeting
At the time of her death, the only family close to Elizabeth were Charles and Anne, the two children featured in Cecil Beaton’s happy family photographs taken before his accession to the throne. We don’t know if they exchanged any words and we will never know. The most plausible hypothesis is that late in the morning of September 8, a shocking event occurred, perhaps a fall, as some sources say, that ended her suffering and the weariness of a life dedicated to the service of the homeland. William arrived with the others at 5:06 p.m. Only Harry at 7:52pm: no one greeted him and then in his room he booked a scheduled flight with his mobile phone. The Reverend Ian Greenshields, head of the Church of Scotland, spent a few days in Balmoral in early September. Isabel told her about faith and her father and her mother, as people sometimes do when they feel the end is near. She then she went to the window and looked out at the beautiful scenery towards the River Dee that she loved so much and said, “Who wouldn’t want to be here?”
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2023-09-08 01:03:32
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