Queen Elizabeth II’s final diary entry revealed: What she wrote 2 days before her death

Late Queen’s last words in journal, two days before her death, were typically ‘factual and practical’. Elizabeth II was still keeping a private diary until two days before her death , with a “factual and practical” final entry, a biographer has found. The late Queen, who died on September 8, 2022, aged 96, recorded that “Edward came to see me”, in reference to Sir Edward Young, her private secretary, and made notes about the swearing-in of new Privy Council members.

She made the entry at Balmoral, where she held a final audience with Liz Truss , who was then Prime Minister, before she “slipped away” in her sleep two days later, said Robert Hardman, the royal biographer. Hardman, who discovered the diary while researching updated chapters for his book about the King, said that the monarch was now following in his mother’s footsteps by keeping a factual diary..