The world has just stopped in the UK: the queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96, this Thursday, September 8, in his Scottish castle of Balmoral, as revealed by Buckingham Palace in a press release. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and Queen consort will stay at Balmoral tonight and return to London tomorrow“, could we read in the official document. A few hours earlier, she had been placed under medical supervision by her doctors.
Concern had already won the country last Tuesday, when the monarch organized the transfer of power between Prime Minister Liz Truss and outgoing Boris Johnson. “The Queen received Liz Truss at Balmoral Castle today. His Majesty asked him to form a new administration. Mrs Truss accepted Her Majesty’s offer and was appointed Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury”, published the royal family on this Twitter account, then revealing a photo on which we can see bruises on the hand.
An “inevitable end”
At this moment, “we find her very tired, very weak“, reported the journalist Bertrand Deckers, specialized in the royal families, this Thursday in the emission Do not touch My TV. “In stride” of this event, “we learn that she is on life support“, he said, adding that this information fell “today“.”I think I was at that time one of the first informed“, he said in order to give credibility to his remarks, before adding: “In London, we already knew that we were heading towards this inevitable end. Bertrand Deckers also clarified that Queen Elizabeth died at 4:10 p.m. this afternoon.
The Queen’s health had deteriorated for a year. She had limited a number of her trips, whether at the time of the jubilee last June or for other occasions. She notably leaves behind Prince Charles, now King Charles III, at the head of the British monarchy. The country then just entered in a period of grief ten-day national.