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Queen Elizabeth's Final Hours of Her Life Revealed in New Royal Book

The queen's personal secretary's memo is included in the upcoming book, 'New King. New Court. Charles III. The Inside Story.'

In the book, excerpted in The Daily Mail, those at Balmoral were preparing for the inevitable, but no one imagined the queen's death would come on that very day. By the time Dr. Glass had reached the Queen's bedroom, she appeared to have stopped breathing -- though only a doctor could say for sure," Hardman writes in his book. Even though Charles was on his way back to Balmoral, it was Sir Edward Young's "first duty" to immediately reach the monarch by phone and inform him of his mother's death.

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