Queen Elizabeth II's honest admission about 'regrets’ in her final days
Her Majesty kept her sense of humour in her final days...Queen Elizabeth II kept her infamous sense of humour up until her final moments, according to reports. Her Majesty passed away on September 8, 2022, at her estate in Balmoral, Scotland.
The country, as well as across the globe, grieved her passing, and she was laid to rest 11 days later (September 19) following her state funeral and the royal family’s mourning period.
A clergyman who spent the last weekend with the queen revealed heartwarming tidbits about the monarch in her final moments.
Queen Elizabeth II’s final days revealed
The Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields, moderator of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, stayed with the queen at Balmoral the weekend before she passed. He shared that the queen was in good spirits during his stay.
Speaking to ABC News at the time, he said: “She said right at the beginning of her time when she was becoming queen that she was going to ask God for wisdom.
“And that’s something which persisted throughout her life. When I was chatting to her about her faith, she said she had no regrets at all.”
He went on to confess that he had no idea it would be the last time he would see Her Majesty alive.
He said: “It seemed just astonishing that the woman who had been so vital, so alive, so engaging, should be all of a sudden, dead and away from us.”
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Her Majesty was the ‘life and soul of things’
Despite her advancing age, Rev. Greenshields said that once she began speaking and engaging in conversations, her age didn’t appear to be a problem at all.
“Somebody whose memory was exceptional, somebody who knew everything about you, so she’d done her homework,” he added.
“She was the life and soul of things. She was speaking very personally to me about her time way back when she was a child. And he was talking about her horses from the past, naming them from 40 years ago, people’s names and places. It was quite remarkable.”
Meanwhile, Rev. Greenshields added that the queen kept her sassy sense of humour right up until the end.
He added: “On Saturday evening, I was staying in the Tower Rooms and she said, ‘Your Queen is sending you to the Tower!’
“And she just smiled at me as she said that.
“She made sure that I understood that I got the joke rather than it being too serious.”
Queen Elizabeth II’s cause of death
Weeks after her passing, the late queen’s cause of death revealed she died from ‘old age’.
Her health deteriorated in her final weeks, and members of the royal family had been by her side in the final days.
The then Prince Charles, Camilla and Princess Anne were with her on her last day alive. Charles and Camilla spent time with the monarch before leaving to allow Princess Anne time with her mother.
It was when they were driving home that Charles pulled over to answer the phone to find out she had died.
Earlier that day, he had called his sons William and Harry to tell them to travel up as soon as they could to say their goodbyes. Unfortunately, she had died before they arrived.
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Queen laid to rest with husband Prince Philip
Following her funeral, the late monarch was laid to rest beside her late husband Prince Philip.
She was buried in the George VI Memorial Chapel inside St George’s Chapel.
A new stone was placed in the George VI Memorial Chapel to replace the black stone slab set into the floor which featured the names George VI and Elizabeth.
It now reads, “George VI 1895-1952” and “Elizabeth 1900-2002” followed by a metal Garter Star, and then “Elizabeth II 1926-2022” and “Philip 1921-2021”.
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