2023-12-22 09:26:00
Princess Anne confides in a documentary behind the scenes of Charles’ coronation that Queen Elizabeth feared she would die in Scotland.
Queen Elizabeth II worried at the end of her life that she would die at her Scottish castle of Balmoral because of the complications this would entail for her funeral, her daughter Princess Anne said in a documentary.
“I think there was a point where she felt like things would be more difficult if she died at Balmoral,” the Princess Royal said in this BBC film which looks back at the year of the king’s coronation Charles III which is due to be released on December 26.
“And I think we tried to persuade her that it shouldn’t be part of the decision-making process,” she added.
After 70 years of reign, a record for the British monarchy, Queen Elizabeth II took her last breath on September 8, 2022 in her Scottish castle of Balmoral.
Deuil national
Her death was followed by a period of national mourning carefully choreographed for a long time, with a different organization if she died in one of her residences.
The sovereign lived at the end of her life at Windsor Castle near London but used to spend her late summers at Balmoral, where she rode horses and where the family took part in hunts, or Christmas at Sandringham , in the East of England.
“Relief”
After being displayed to the public at St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, the Queen’s coffin was transported to London aboard a military plane. The coffin was then on public display at Westminster Hall, the oldest room in the British Parliament, until the funeral on September 19.
In the documentary, Princess Anne recalls the moment and the strange feeling of “relief” she experienced when the crown was removed from the coffin, and “this responsibility transferred” to the new King Charles III.
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