EXCLUSIVE: Two years on from Queen Elizabeth II's death, a leading expert reflects on how the Royal Family will be feeling lost without the monarch's guiding hand
Back in May 2022, Queen Elizabeth II said, “I have lived long enough to know things never remain quite the same for very long. Events and situations change with startling speed.” Those words – taken from the BBC documentary, Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen, less than four months before her death – now seem startlingly prophetic.
Echoing Duncan, royal biographer Andrew Morton added: “It’s been very difficult for the Royal Family just to keep going, because so many of them have been seriously ill – and are seriously ill. King Charles has not been a particularly lucky monarch so far.” Away from serious health scares, there have, of course, been other challenges in the last 12 months that have shaken the Firm to its core. Be it the sad death of Lady Gabriella Kingston’s husband, Thomas Kingston, Princess Anne’s hospitalisation after she was injured by a horse or Sarah, Duchess of York’s skin cancer diagnosis which came less than a year after she underwent a mastectomy for breast cancer.
“If you think back to that picture of the Queen, Charles, William and George taken a few years ago, you remember how solid the future of the monarchy looked, with three future Kings all alive and well. After the many ups and downs of her reign, the Queen must have felt that her legacy was secure and the future was looking pretty rosy,” Jennie says.
Nothing exemplified this shift more than the King and Kate’s decision to make their cancer diagnoses public knowledge, a move that would likely have been anathema to the late Queen. “The fact that Kate made a very touching piece to camera at Kensington Palace was a very different approach and a genuine step change in the way the royal family deals with illness,” he says. “And given the public fascination with what was wrong with Kate and the hysteria surrounding it, I think it was a very shrewd move, as it burst that balloon of conjecture.”
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