According to Barrell, the queen, who was diagnosed with cancer in April 2021, was in Balmoral in the last days of her life and could no longer get out of bed, although she tried to do it. He noted that she had lunch all her life at 13.00, drank tea at 17.00 and dinner at 20.15, if possible, but on the eve of death stopped going out into the dining room.
Instead, they brought her food on trays to the room, and she ate very little. The former butler emphasized that at that time the queen “faded away in front of the whole country” – the dresses became not in size, she began to look paler and worse.
Barrell wrote that on September 8, 2022, when the Queen died, most of the courtiers had no idea what happened and did their usual affairs. Thus, the queen's advisers did not want the news of her death to leak out before she would be officially announced.
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Elizabeth II (full name – Elizabeth Alexander Maria) was born in 1926 in London in a royal family.
On February 6, 1952, at the age of 25 after the death of his father, King George VI, Princess Elizabeth received the title of Queen Elizabeth II. The coronation took place on June 2, 1953.
April 9, 2021 Elizabeth II Owl. Prince Philip, who died at the age of 99, was buried on April 17, 2021.
About health problems in Elizabeth II They began to speak back in October 2021, when it was for the first time in 18 years appeared in public with a cane. On October 20, she was hospitalized. In February 2022, Elizabeth II during admission in the Windsor Castle I complained that it was hard for her to move.
The queen found out that she has cancer in April 2021, but hid it. Elizabeth II I asked the doctors to do everything possible so that she could celebrate her platinum anniversary-the 70th anniversary of the coronation. To maintain health, the queen made a blood transfusion, and she herself observed all the instructions of the doctors, abandoning her favorite alcoholic beverages, replacing them with apple and tomato juice. All this time she knew that she was dying.
Elizabeth II died on September 8, 2022 At the 97th year of life, having lived after a platinum anniversary for another three months. The death certificate says that the Queen of Great Britain died “for natural causes.”
