The Queen’s death certificate revealed

Scotland has published the official death certificate of Queen Elizabeth II, revealing for the first time the precise time and cause of her passing.

The National Records of Scotland has published an extract from the death certificate of Queen Elizabeth II, revealing the time and her official cause of death for the first time.

The extract reveals the Queen died at 3.10pm local time, revealing new insight into the timeline of her passing, the official announcement, and when her family made it to her bedside. Buckingham Palace would not officially announce her death until more than 3 hours later at 6.30pm.

The 96-year-old, with the listed occupation of “Her Majesty The Queen”, officially died of “Old Age” on September 8, according to the entry in the registrar of deaths the following week, on September 16.

The document was signed by her daughter, Princess Anne, HRH The Princess Royal.

The Queen’s official death certificate, released by The National Records of Scotland. Picture: Supplied

Only Princess Anne and King Charles, both already in Scotland, made it to the Queen’s bedside before her death at 3.10pm.

King Charles was nearby in Dumfries, with Camilla, Queen Consort, and arrive in a helicopter to be by her side in her final hours.

A private jet carrying Prince William, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, landed at Aberdeen airport at 4.52pm, and the four arrived at Balmoral Castle 5.11pm.

The UK’s Prime Minister, Liz Truss, was not informed of the Queen’s death until 4.30pm. Prince Harry, meanwhile, had taken a later flight from London at 5.35pm and did not learn of her death until landing at Aberdeen airport at 6.46pm.

The Queen met Liz Truss just days before she died at Balmoral. Picture: Getty Images

He was said to have read about her death from online reports, which broke just 16 minutes before he landed.

The death certificate lists the marital status of “Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor”, using her full name, as “widowed”, following the death of her husband, Prince Philip, a year earlier.

It names Princess Anne as the “informant” of the Queen’s death at Balmoral Castle, Ballater, in the district of Abberdeenshire, while naming her “usual residence” as Windsor Castle.

The portrait taken before the her meeting with the new Conservative Party leader turned out to be the last public image taken of the Queen. Picture: AFP

Princess Anne. travelled with the Queen’s coffin from Balmoral, to Edinburgh, then London, spoke about the Queen’s final day.

“I was fortunate to share the last 24 hours of my dearest mother’s life,” she said on September 13. “At has been an honour and a privilege to accompany her on her final journeys.”

Prince Anne signed the death certificate on September 16, three days after that heartfelt tribute, with the palace’s official doctor, Douglas James Allan Glass, certifying her death as “old age”.

Dr Glass is a GP from the Highlands village of Aboyne, around 30kms, or a 25 minute drive, east of Balmoral Castle.

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