Queen Elizabeth couldn’t make it to Prince Philip’s bedside before he died: royal biographer
nypost.comElizabeth: An Intimate Portrait.”“The Duke of Edinburgh had been in a hospital bed, set up in his dressing room at Windsor Castle.
That morning, he went to the bathroom, helped by a nurse.”Brandreth, a former Conversative MP and now Chancellor of the University of Chester, claims that Prince Philip said he felt “a little faint” and wanted help to go back into bed when he came back into the room.“The nurse called the Duke’s valet and the Queen’s page, Paul Whybrew, for help — and he died before the Queen could be called.
The Queen wasn’t yet up. And she wasn’t called until after a doctor had come and pronounced the Duke dead,” Brandreth wrote.
The royal biographer first met the Queen in 1968 when he was 20. Brandreth is known as a “close friend” of Queen Elizabeth who “knew Philip and Queen Elizabeth for decades,” according to the Daily Mirror.When describing his relationship with the royal couple, Brandreth told The Times in 2021 that there is a limit of closeness between a person and a royal family member.“The Duke showed me great friendliness over 40 years,” Brandreth started. “But royalty offer you friendliness, not friendship, and you have to remember the difference.”Due to the pandemic, the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral only had 30 family members and loved ones at St.
Read more on nypost.com