Queen Elizabeth II’s last five-word diary entry revealed

Queen Elizabeth II was all business in the days leading up to her death.

The late monarch – who died in 2022 at the age of 96 – did not mince her words and got straight to the point in her final diary entry, according to royal biographer. Robert Hardmanwho discovered the diary while researching her heir King Charles III.

“It turns out she was still writing it at Balmoral two days before her death,” Hardman wrote of Queen Elizabeth in his updated biography Charles III: new king. New Court. The inner story.per The Telegraph. “Her final entry was as factual and practical as ever.”

True to her habit of recording the major events of the day, rather than writing down her personal thoughts and feelings, Queen Elizabeth wrote: “Edward came to visit me,” said Hardman, referring to Her Royal’s private secretary Majesty. Lord Edward Young.

Young likely helped Queen Elizabeth make arrangements to swear in the then newly elected British Prime Minister Liz Trusscouncil members, Hardman said.