King Charles Shares Why Queen Elizabeth “Chose” to Spend Her Final Days in Scotland
Queen Elizabeth II was all business in the days leading up to her death.
In fact, the late monarch—who died in 2022 at age 96—didn’t mince words and got straight to the point in her final diary entry, according to royal biographer Robert Hardman, who discovered the journal while researching about her heir King Charles III.
“It transpires that she was still writing it at Balmoral two days before her death,” Hardman wrote of Queen Elizabeth in his updated biography Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story., per The Telegraph. “Her last entry was as factual and practical as ever.”
True to her habit of recording the day’s big events, rather than jotting down her personal thoughts and feelings, Queen Elizabeth wrote: “‘Edward came to see me,'” according to Hardman, referring to Her Royal Majesty’s private secretary Sir Edward Young.
Young was likely helping Queen Elizabeth make arrangements to swear in the then-newly elected U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss‘ council members, per Hardman.
