Tuesday, November 12, 2024 -Queen Elizabeth II’s final diary entry, written just two days before her death, has been revealed and it contains only five words.
During her record-breaking 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth, who died in
Sept. 2022 at age 96, kept a private diary to jot down key events in her life
throughout the years.
She carried that tradition through to her final days.
Royal biographer Robert Hardman discovered Her Late Majesty’s handwritten
entries while researching updated chapters for his book about King
Charles.
According to the author, the late monarch’s final entry was made at
Balmoral, where she died on Sept. 8, two days after meeting Prime Minister Liz
Truss, who was new to the role at the time.
In her diary, she recorded that her private secretary, Edward Young, had
come to see her. She also wrote down some highlights about swearing in new
Privy Council members.
"Edward came to see me," the last diary entry reads.
“It transpires that she was still writing it at Balmoral two days before her
de@th,” 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,” he added.
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