The late Queen Elizabeth II’s last recorded words have been revealed by former Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Ms Truss, 48, visited Britain’s longest-serving monarch at her beloved Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, just two days before her death in September 2022.
In her new memoir, which was serialized in the Mail, Britain’s longest-serving prime minister revealed how the Queen advised her to “calm down”.
Ms Truss – the last of 15 prime ministers in the Queen’s service – has now told The Sun the last six words the monarch spoke to her at the end of their meeting on September 6, 2022.
The Queen said: “I will see you again next week. » Ms. Truss recalls: “I absolutely thought this would happen. »
But on September 8, just two days after the two were photographed shaking hands, the world was plunged into mourning when Queen Elizabeth’s death was announced by Buckingham Palace.
Ms Truss visited Britain’s longest-serving monarch at her beloved Balmoral Castle in Scotland just two days before her death in September 2022.
Liz Truss (pictured) was the last of 15 prime ministers who served the late Queen Elizabeth II.
The official cause of death would later be recorded as “old age”.
Ms Truss – who flew to Scotland after beating Rishi Sunak in the Conservative leadership race in the summer of 2022 – survived just 49 days in her role.
His brief tenure was marked by economic turmoil – including reforms which sent sterling tumbling – before his ouster from Number 10.
Speaking about last meeting the Queen on the Sun’s Never Mind the Ballots, Ms Truss said: ‘She was an extremely wise woman and so, so on the ball.’
The Mail previously revealed that Ms Truss wrote of the late Queen in the book Ten Years To Save The West: “She was completely in tune with everything that was going on, whilst being typically lively and witty .
“Towards the end of our discussion, she warned me that being prime minister was incredibly aging. She also gave me two pieces of advice: “Be safe. » Maybe I should have listened.
Summoned to Scotland because of the Queen’s poor health, Ms Truss described her as “fragile” but “alert”, “absolutely in the know” of things and seemed determined to meet again.
At the time, the Queen used a cane as she suffered from episodic mobility problems.
Upon news of the Queen’s death – which came just days after Ms Truss moved into Number 10 – the former Prime Minister remembers thinking: “Why me?” Why now?’
The state ceremony and protocol that followed left her “far from my natural comfort zone,” she wrote. Ms Truss said she broke down “in tears on the sofa”. She added: “Once again, grief was mixed with a sense of dread at the weight of the event and the fact that it was happening on my watch.”
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Ms Truss admitted that previous prime ministers might have been better suited to events by providing “the soaring rhetoric and performative statesmanship needed”.
She said that, despite massive political pressure, her first meeting with King Charles sparked “a strange feeling of camaraderie between us, both of us starting out in our new roles and having to navigate unchartered territory”. At the time, Conservative MPs had already begun taking steps to remove Ms Truss from office. As she curtseyed to Charles, he said, “So you’re back?”
Mrs. Truss replied: “It is a great pleasure,” but the king added: “Dear, oh my God. Anyway…’
On the anniversary of the Queen’s death in September 2023, Ms Truss said the Queen was “mentally alert” during their meeting.
At the meeting at Balmoral she was absolutely aware of what was happening,” she told GB News at the time.
“She really wanted to reassure me that we would see each other again soon. It was very important to her.
“I had already met the Queen when I was Justice Secretary. I met her several times. And even though she was physically very fragile, she was always mentally alert and determined to carry out her duty.
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