It is a difficult period that Queen Elizabeth II is currently going through. The one who recently celebrated her platinum jubilee has been in mourning since July 29 and the disappearance of her dear and loving friend Lady Myra Butter, who died “peacefully” at the age of 97, according to a notice published in The Daily Telegraph.
The monarch and Lady Myra, who was notably a cousin of Prince Philip, had met as children and had remained very close growing up. Proof of their friendship: the sovereign, accompanied by her sister Princess Margaret, had attended the wedding of her friend with Major David Butter in 1946.
Last year, Lady Myra opened up about her relationship with the grandmother of Princes William and Harry, referring in particular to the swimming lessons at the Bath Club in London that they had in common. “The queen said it was a very long time ago… Well, I think I was 12. I’m rather lucky at this level: my memory is good and his too“, she confided to the Daily Telegraph.
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They also rubbed shoulders with each other for whole days at Buckingham Palace during their youth because Lady Myra was one of the many girls asked by the Palace to join the then Princess Elizabeth in various activities. She also clarified that the Queen had “a very good sense of humor, which lasted his whole life“.
This disappearance must therefore greatly affect the cousin of Tatiana Mountbatten, who was already mourning the death of two ladies-in-waiting a few months ago: Diana Maxwell (nicknamed Lady Farnham), who was her lady-in-waiting for thirty-four years, and Ann Fortune FitzRoy (Duchess of Grafton), former mistress of her wardrobe since 1967. But she is far from lonely to overcome this ordeal since the magazine People reports that she has “friends for dinner and watching TV in the evening” and “loyal servants like personal aide Angela Kelly and longtime footman Paul Whybrew“.
“Whatever her private grief, she wants to behave in the most cheerful way possible.“, in particular declared a relative People Royals. As a reminder, Queen Elizabeth II is currently visiting her summer home in Balmoral, Scotland.