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What Really Happened the Day Queen Elizabeth Died

R.I.P.

Queen Elizabeth’s decline and death was faster than even her nearest and dearest expected—with a day of royal family squabbling and a race against time to get to Balmoral.

Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes 

European Editor at Large

Photo illustration of Queen Elizabeth II in a gilded frame with calla lilies around her.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Wikimedia Commons
Tom Sykes

Tom Sykes

European Editor at Large

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tom.sykes@thedailybeast.com

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