The late Queen was referring to Sir Edward Young, her private secretary, who was helping her make preparations for the swearing-in of newly elected Prime Minister Liz Truss’s ministers. Appointing Britain’s lowest ruling Prime Minister from Balmoral was Her Late Majesty’s final decision. public engagement before his death on September 8, 2022.

“It turns out that she was still writing it at Balmoral two days before her death,” Hardman wrote in an updated edition of his biography of King Charles, as Telegraph information. “Your last entry was as factual and matter-of-fact as ever.”

As always, this was not a record of deep personal introspection, but a catalog of the day’s events, intended to assist Queen Elizabeth in the administrative efforts of governing, perhaps to act as a reminder of the countless commitments that he undertook each day, or even to remember the innumerable commitments he undertook each day. as a service to the archives that would remain after his death.

The late Queen once told society chronicler Kenneth Rose that “I don’t have time to record conversations, only events.”

Queen Elizabeth II signs the guest book after the opening of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, at Carlton House Terrace, 11 December 1970.

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Hardman found this latest journal entry while researching an updated chapter of King Charles IIIa biography that narrates the first years of the new monarch’s reign. The writer has also revealed that the new King, who was once a deeply emotional writer in his diaries, has followed in his mother’s footsteps and switched to a more pragmatic style. style.