King Charles III was left sealed letter by Queen mum at death

London, January 13

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who died aged 96 in September 2022, left a sealed death-bed letter for her son and heir King Charles III, a new book has claimed. According to a report in ‘The Daily Telegraph’ on Saturday, biographer Robert Hardman has written about the immediate aftermath of the Queen’s passing in a new biography of King Charles III and revealed how she was working on her traditional “red boxes” of official correspondence till the very end.

He wrote, “Private secretary Sir Edward found the sealed letter for the Prince of Wales and a private letter to himself. Were they final instructions or final farewells? Or both? We will probably never know what they said. However, it is clear enough that the Queen had known that the end was imminent and had planned accordingly.”

The box also included the late Queen’s approved shortlist of candidates to receive the Order of Merit that is intended to reward distinguished service in public life.