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Prince Harry flew from Luton to Balmoral after his father said the Queen’s health was worsening, but by the time his plane landed, news of her death had broken.
By Matt JacksonContent Editor
Princess Anne had a heartbreaking question for Harry after the Queen’s death (Image: PA Images)
Princess Anne asked Prince Harry a heartbreaking question after he realised he missed the late Queen Elizabeth II’s death.
The Duke of Sussex was in London with wife Meghan Markle when the-then Prince Charles informed them the Queen’s health was worsening on September 8, 2022. According to royal author Robert Jobson, Charles however “banned” Meghan from travelling to Scotland.
Harry claims his father later informed him “no wives” were travelling to see the Queen, with Princess Kate remaining in London with her children. Harry is said to have opted to take a private jet at this point.
He boarded a charter plane from Luton Airport, scheduled to land in Scotland at 8pm. By the time his plane landed however, news had already broken of the Queen’s death.
Queen Elizabeth II spent her final days at Balmoral. (Image: Getty)
In his memoir Spare, Harry writes: “When the plane started to descend I saw that my phone lit up. It was a message from Meg: “Call me when you get this.”
“I looked at the BBC website. My grandmother had died. My father was King.”
After Harry arrived at Balmoral, he is said to have been met by his aunt, the Princess Royal, who had been staying with the 96-year-old monarch at the Scottish estate. Harry recalls the devastating question Anne asked when he arrived.
He added: “She asked if I wanted to see Granny. [I answered,] ‘Yes, I do.’”
The Queen died at Balmoral. (Image: Getty)
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Harry said his grandmother’s bedroom seemed “unfamiliar” when he went to see her. He described the moment as “difficult” but said he “kept on thinking how I’d regretted not seeing my mother at the end,” reported US magazine.
Hary, 40, says he was “in awe” of his grandmother for working through to her final days. The Queen met then Prime Minister Liz Truss just 48 hours before her death.
Truss succeeded Boris Johnson as Prime Minister on September 6. She resigned however just 49 days later – the shortest term of any PM.
Today (September 19) marks the two year anniversary of the late Queen’s funeral.
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Princess Charlene gets emotional as palace shares exciting news
Princess Charlene of Monaco apparently got emotional as the palace shared an exciting news on Friday.
The palace shared the exciting news after Prince Albert presented the medals to the winners of the double sculls at the Vaires-sur-Marne water sports stadium on Thursday.
The Monaco palace shared photos of Prince Albert presenting the medals and said, One hundred years after the third Olympic gold medal was picked up in the spring, in Paris, by John B. Kelly Sr, his maternal grandfather, Prince Albert II presented the gold medal this Thursday to the winners of the pair, at the Nautical Stadium of Vaires-sur-Marne.
Romanians A.S. Cornea and M. Enache climbed the highest step of the podium, ahead of the Dutch M. Twellaar and S. Broenink (2nd) and the Irish D. Lynch and P. Doyle (3rd).
It further said, On this occasion, a reception was organized by the federation international rowing in the presence of CIO President Thomas Bach, World Rowing President Jean-Christophe Rolland and cousins of Prince Albert II.
Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal will on October 26 begin a full hearing of the petition filed by Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the declaration of Senator Ademola Adeleke as governor-elect.
Lifestyle Nigeria reports that the tribunal made this pronouncement after concluding the pre-hearing session on Thursday.
The tribunal was asked to dismiss the applications of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), seeking the discontinuation of the petition brought to it by Governor Oyetola.
Counsel for Oyetola and the APC, Lasun Sanusi, SAN, at the sitting of the tribunal argued that Adeleke’s, PDP’s and INEC’s reliance on a Federal Court High judgment was nothing but an abuse of court process.
Sanusi argued this while replying to separate applications of the trio, seeking the dismissal of the petition based on the already appealed Federal High Court judgment disqualifying Oyetola from contesting the election.
Citing Supreme Court decisions in the case of Jegede Vs INEC, 2021, 14NWLR, Pt 1797, page 409, the counsel said the court had ruled that the signatories to the letter conveying the nomination of a candidate were not the nominators; rather, the nomination was done by party members at the congress, hence, the judgment could not stand.
Meanwhile, the counsel for INEC, Prof. Paul Ananaba, SAN; counsel for Adeleke, Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN and counsel for the PDP, Dr. Alex Izinyon, SAN, agreed that any decision the tribunal would take on the matter would have to wait until the Appeal Court and the Supreme Court decided on it.
They noted that they just decided to argue the applications to have it on record, a position which the tribunal agreed with and put on record.
Also, in other applications totalling nine by the three respondents, they asked the tribunal to strike out some paragraphs of the petition on the grounds that they were either lumped together or not related to the 2022 election.
In response to each of the applications, Sanusi said all the cases cited by the respondents were misconceived, adding that they were not applicable in the instance case.
He cited the case of INEC Vs Otti, 2016, 8NWLR, where the Supreme Court hinted that INEC was supposed to be neutral, arguing that all the processes filed before the panel have not portrayed the commission’s neutrality.
Sanusi further argued that the applications filed by the respondents were only meant to prevent the tribunal from focusing on hearing the petition on merit, asking the panel to dismiss the applications.
Subsequently, counsel for all parties in the matter agreed to begin the full hearing starting with the calling of witnesses on October 26.
In his ruling, the tribunal declared the pre-hearing session concluded and announced that the pre-hearing conference report would be presented on October 17.
