Balmoral Castle in the Scottish Highlands was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite place. This is where she also spent her last days and wrote once again in her diary. But the last entry is not a summary of her life. Here is what she wrote.
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'Edward came to me'
Her sense of duty was unparalleled, so much so that she appointed Liz Truss as Prime Minister just one day before her death. And she also wrote something on the subject. Royal author Robert Hardman recently published an updated version of his autobiography of King Charles. It is in this context that he shared the last entry of Queen Elizabeth's diary, where she reportedly wrote:
Edward came to me.
Two days before her death, Queen Elizabeth II noted in her official diary that her private secretary, Sir Edward Young, came to see her with the arrangements made for the swearing in of the new ministers of the Truss government.
A normal, matter-of-fact diary entry, as one was used to from the Queen. No extraordinary last thoughts or that she was expecting to die. No mention of her passion for cars or horses, nothing about her devotion to her children and grandchildren.
The Queen addressed this before as she once told diarist Kenneth Rose, according to Hello!,
I have no time to record conversations, only events.
Paul Whybrew was entrusted with her written estate
The entry shared by Robert Hardman was allegedly not approved nor denied by the King. As per The Independent, he discovered the diary while doing his research for the biography.
In fact, the man who has been put in charge of sifting thought Queen Elizabeth's personal letters and diaries by King Charles, is commissioned former employee Paul Whybrew. He will decide which correspondence and notes will then be made available to the public.
Why Paul Whybrew?
Paul Whybrew was one of Queen Elizabeth's most loyal staff, having served her for 44 years up until her final days. He was a footman in the household, and was known as 'Tall Paul' as he stood at a whopping 6 foot 4.
While he is currently retired, as per the Daily Mail, he spends two days in a week sorting through all of her entries and letters. A source, who dubbed the man as 'the keeper of the Queen's secrets' said that King Charles needed someone he could trust. They added:
There is no one else that the King would have trusted with such a big job. This is the ultimate reward for his loyalty.
This article has been translated from Oh!MyMag DE.
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Gala: Queen Elizabeth: This is what she wrote in her diary on her last day
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Tatler: What did Queen Elizabeth write in her final diary entry? How the late monarch was still updating her journal two days before her death
Hello!: The late Queen's final diary entry revealed
