A close royal confidante has revealed details about some of the final, emotional conversations Queen Elizabeth II shared with her friends in the days leading up to her passing on September 8, 2022.
Gyles Brandreth, who maintained a strong connection with the monarch and the late Prince Philip, documented the Queen’s final days at Balmoral in his book, Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait.
He recounts how the late Queen welcomed the Right Reverend Dr. Iain Greenshields to Balmoral on September 3 and 4, describing her as being “so alive and so engaging.”
According to the Mirror, the author wrote that “he has dinner with her on Saturday evening, gives the sermon at Braemar and Crathie Parish Church on Sunday morning, then has lunch with her on Sunday afternoon.”
The author shared that on the morning of September 6, Clive Cox, a racehorse trainer greatly favored by Her Majesty, received a call from the Queen at 10 a.m.
She had wanted to discuss her two-year-old filly, Love Affairs, who was set to race at Goodwood in the two o’clock event.
Recalling the conversation, he said: “We talked about the filly, how the race might pan out, how another horse of hers was doing in my stable, and about a couple of other things. She was sharp as a tack.”
