Heartbreaking location King Charles was told his mother the late Queen had died
King Charles was informed of the death of his mother, and addressed as Your Majesty for the very first time, in a telephone call which took place in a surprisingly informal setting.
Her Majesty the Queen passed away at 3:10pm on 8 September 2022. Her son and heir had been by her bedside, but left to clear his head – unaware how little time she had left.
He was notified by a phone call while he was driving nearby – more precisely, the royal was on the B976 onto the back drive of the Balmoral estate when he stopped his car and took a call from his late mother’s private secretary, Sir Edward Young, who informed him of her passing.
In his book Charles III New King. New Court. The Inside Story, royal author Robert Hardman shared details of the moment Charles fulfilled his destiny.
He wrote: “Schoolchildren are taught that the longest reign in British history began at a Kenyan watering hole; that Princess Elizabeth was watching wildlife from the branches of a giant fig tree when King George VI died in his sleep on 6 February 1952 that his dutiful daughter, having climbed up as a Princess, climbed down as Queen.
“History will record that, seven decades later, on the afternoon of 8 September 2022, her son and heir was on an unmarked Scottish country road, at the wheel of his car, when he was first addressed as ‘Your Majesty’. He had been to visit the Queen at Balmoral Castle earlier in the day and had then spent a few hours at his nearby home, Birkhall, before returning to the castle.
