Unfinished Business! Queen Elizabeth II Left Two Letters Before Her Death!

Updated On March 18, 2024 | Published By: Denise | In Death , Royal Family

Queen Elizabeth II left two letters in her deathbed. source: People

Queen Elizabeth II left two private letters in her final red box.
The monarch left the letter for her son Charles and the other for her top aide.
The late queen died on September 8, 2022, at Balmoral Castle.

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What was Queen Elizabeth II’s last unfinished job?

Queen Elizabeth II wrote two private letters just before her death; one for her son, King Charles, and the other for her top aide.

In an excerpt from royal biographer Robert Hardman’s book, The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy, in the Daily Mail on Friday, the author that the royal staff discovered two private letters that the Queen left behind.

After the monarch passed away peacefully at Balmoral Castle in September. 8, 2022, her private secretary Sir Edward Young, and other senior staff were mapping out the future days. A footman then brought one of Her Majesty’s famous red boxes.

The red box contains the daily dispatch of papers from ministers around the U.K.

That might also carry documents and correspondence from representatives from the Commonwealth and other countries worldwide.

Queen Elizabeth — The Queen passed away peacefully at Balmoral Castle. source: People

Hardman writes in the excerpt,

“It was the last one that had gone up to the Queen before her death,”
“Like all red boxes, it had just two keys, one for the monarch and the other for her duty private secretary.”

Young also found a sealed letter to her eldest child and a private letter to himself.

Hardman writes in the book which will release on Sept. 8, 2022,

”We will probably never know what they said. However, it is clear enough that the Queen had known that the end was imminent and had planned accordingly. Were they final instructions or final farewells? Or both?”
“Elizabeth II had been completing her own last pieces of unfinished business.”

Also, Read Royal Expert Claims Queen Elizabeth II Always Wished to Spend Her Final Hours at Balmoral Castle!

What was Queen Elizabeth II’s final year like?

The book also states that the UK’s longest-reigning monarch left behind her list of candidates to join the Order of Merit.

Hardman writes in the Daily Mail’s excerpt,

“The Queen had always taken it extremely seriously,”
“The paperwork had gone up to her two days before so that she could go through the notes and tick her choices. Here it was, completed and returned for Sir Edward to make the necessary arrangements. It was the last document ever handled by Queen Elizabeth II. Even on her deathbed, there had been work to do. And she had done it.”

Queen Elizabeth II — The book will be out on January 18. source: People

A close royal source told Hardman that Elizabeth had been suffering from “multiple conditions” in her final year.

One friend said,

“She had come to realize that the medical prognosis meant she was not going to emulate her mother and reach 100, so she had been determined to make the most of that [final] year,”
“She made sure she had all the family up over the summer, so that the young ones in particular would always be left with happy memories of her.”

Also, Read King Charles wishes the late Queen Elizabeth II in an honor of Mother’s Day

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