The late Queen was referring to Sir Edward Young, her private secretary, who was helping her make arrangements for the swearing-in of newly selected Prime Minister Liz Truss’ ministers. Appointing Britain’s shortest ruling prime minister from Balmoral was Her Late Majesty’s final public engagement before her death on 8 September 2022.
‘It transpires that she was still writing it at Balmoral two days before her death,’ Hardman wrote in an updated edition of his biography of King…

