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• “With the Queen Mother (Queen Elizabeth’s mother) going on past her 100th birthday, of course we had to think that the Queen would reach the same age..
• “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.”In the days before her death, the queen remained busy, the Sunday Times details in its rundown of Hardman’s book..
• Had the Queen died in July, it would have meant a winter coronation, which would have been miserable..
• She turns 59 on Jan. 20.Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh attends the Royal Family's Christmas Day service at St. Mary Magdalene's church, as the Royals take residence at the Sandringham estate in eastern England, Britain December 25, 2023.A busy week of past momentous events, too..
• On the evening of September 6, the queen was “energized,” having met the departing prime minister, Boris Johnson, and his replacement, Liz Truss.“She was quite buzzy over pre-dinner drinks,” said one person in the party, which included Princess Anne and her oldest grandchild, Peter Phillips..
• “You would still have needed a near-full queen’s household and a near-full prince’s household and it would have been very hard for the regent..