Overview
- Robert Hardman’s biography, published April 9, reports the Queen asked for all 12 great-grandchildren to visit Balmoral in summer 2022 so they would remember her fondly.
- Hardman writes she understood her health was worsening and set about tying up loose ends, including final Windsor audiences and a last visit to her beloved horses.
- Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis spent late August 2022 at Balmoral, with Charlotte and Louis flying commercially with their mother while George traveled with Prince William under travel rules that split heirs on flights.
- Harry and Meghan’s children, Archie and Lilibet, were in the U.K. for the June 2022 Platinum Jubilee but are not believed to have gone to Balmoral.
- The account details her final duties at Balmoral on September 6, 2022, with the Liz Truss audience that produced her last photograph, and cites records showing she died there on September 8 with the cause listed as old age.