Back in May 2022, Queen Elizabeth II said, “I have lived long enough to know things never remain quite the same for very long.
Events and situations change with startling speed.” Those words – taken from the BBC documentary, Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen, less than four months before her death – now seem startlingly prophetic.
Not even she, underpinned by 96 years of rich life experience and wisdom, could have foreseen the monumental changes that have unfolded since she passed away on 8 September that year.
While there have been further family dramas and scandals, it is the worrying cancer diagnoses of King Charles and The Princess of Wales that would have rocked the late monarch the most, according to a leading expert. “It was a double whammy of bad news affecting two of those closest to her, so it would have upset her terribly had she still been alive,” royal commentator Duncan Larcombe tells us. “But I think she would have been extremely proud of how they’ve both handled things.The Queen always had that ‘keep calm and carry on’ work ethic, and we’ve really seen that continue with the King.
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