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New documentary sheds light on Queen Elizabeth’s final days

Source: PA Archive

Queen Elizabeth II felt it would be “difficult” if she died at Balmoral but was persuaded to step back from the “decision making process,” the Princess Royal has told a documentary.

Anne reveals the late Queen’s thinking during her last days in an interview for the BBC film, and says about the accession of her brother the King: “I’m not sure that anybody can really prepare themselves for that kind of change.”

Elizabeth’s only daughter said it was “serendipity” she was at Balmoral before her mother’s death and she “weirdly felt a

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