Upon arrival, Princess Anne greeted him and asked if he wanted to see her. “I thought about it for about five seconds,” Harry shared. “And I was like, ‘You know what? You can do this. You need to say goodbye.’”

Reflecting on the moment, he said, “She had completed life, and her husband was waiting for her.” In his memoir, he recalled whispering to her, “I hoped she was happy and that she was with grandpa.”

Although the official cause of death was listed as old age, royal author Gyles Brandreth suggested she had been battling bone marrow cancer. He noted that her weight loss, fatigue, and mobility issues aligned with symptoms of myeloma, a disease with no cure that primarily affects the elderly.

In her final months, she reportedly suffered from chronic pain and increasing difficulty moving. The Daily Beast revealed that, despite never being publicly seen in a wheelchair, she relied on one privately.

A Declining Queen in Her Last Days

A close friend of the Queen shared that after Prince Philip’s passing in 2021, her health deteriorated rapidly. She reportedly struggled with pain, vision, and hearing loss. Though she appointed Liz Truss as Prime Minister just days before her passing, she was easily confused and unable to concentrate for long periods.

“In the final months, it got much worse,” the friend revealed. “By the time of the Platinum Jubilee, she couldn’t see very much, she couldn’t hear very much, and she was easily confused.”

Her last public appearance, on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the Jubilee, required enormous effort. Despite being in significant discomfort, she insisted on standing unaided for her final salute to the nation.

Queen Elizabeth’s passing marked the end of an era, closing the chapter on one of the longest reigns in British history.