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Members of Royal Family all miss the late Queen's guiding hand – two years on from her death


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

With royal roles re-jigged upon the accession of King Charles, the family dynamic has evolved and even senior members now exhibit a more relaxed, open approach to life in the spotlight. Writing in his book Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait, Gyles Brandreth says he believes the Queen was in fact suffering from “a form of myeloma – bone marrow cancer – which would explain her tiredness and weight loss, and those ‘mobility issues’ we were often told about during the last year or so of her life.” And, although he may have looked slightly more weary than usual, the King still cut an imposing figure in full ceremonial uniform of the Irish Guards, for what was his biggest engagement since being diagnosed.

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