ABC News reports, a newly-surfaced letter sheds some light on her grief.The letter was written in response to condolences from Lady Henriette Abel Smith, a lady in waiting and close confidante to the Queen.
Most of the letter was typed, but there was a written postscript. The letter was obtained by the Daily Mail after it was auctioned off following Lady Abel Smith’s death in 2005. "It was indeed dreadfully sad, and she is a huge loss to the country,” the Queen wrote in the typed portion, which may have been more of a form letter. “But the public reaction to her death, and the service in the Abbey, seem to have united people round the world in a rather inspiring way.
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