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Queen Elizabeth II’s closing days are coming into focus with a brand new e book.
In an excerpt printed by Daily Mail from royal author Gyles Brandreth’s upcoming e book Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait, he writes that the late monarch made peace together with her loss of life as he documented Reverend Dr. Iain Greenshields’ go to at Balmoral the weekend earlier than she died.
“The truth is that Her Majesty always knew that her remaining time was limited. She accepted this with all the grace you’d expect,” Brandreth writes.
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“‘Her faith was everything to her. She told me she had no regrets,’ said Dr. Greenshields, referring to the last weekend he spent with her at Balmoral.”
Brandreth additionally writes of rumors that Her Majesty had a uncommon type of myeloma, a bone marrow most cancers, “which would explain her tiredness and weight loss and those ‘mobility issues’ we were often told about during the last year or so of her life.”
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He explains that it is not stunning her reason for loss of life was dominated “old age,” as that is the generally listed trigger “when a patient is over 80 and their doctor has cared for them over time and seen their gradual decline.”
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Dr. Douglas James Allan Glass, who labored with the Queen for greater than 30 years and was together with her on the time of her loss of life, mentioned her loss of life “was expected and we were quite aware of what was going to happen.”
According to Brandreth’s e book, Queen Elizabeth started exhibiting “sudden ‘energy low'” and “felt exhausted” in autumn 2021, as docs ordered her to “‘rest a bit, not to push herself so much, to take it easy.'” She subsequently canceled a number of appearances.
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“Until then, her energy had been little short of astonishing,” Brandreth writes. “Over her final decade, she’d not only continued her work as monarch but actively engaged with modern life.
Queen Elizabeth died at age 96 in September at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Buckingham Palace previously announced that the Queen was “beneath medical supervision” and doctors were “involved” about her well being, as members of the royal household rushed to her facet at Balmoral.
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Her Majesty’s loss of life adopted the passing of her husband of 73 years, Prince Philip, who died at age 99 in June 2021. She was succeeded instantly by her eldest son, King Charles III, 74, who’s now the monarch.
Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait is offered Dec. 8.
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