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Queen Elizabeth II would have turned 97 last Friday. On this occasion, Kensington Palace released a previously unpublished portrait of Her Majesty, made a few weeks before her death. In the photo, Elizabeth II sits covered in a checkered blanket in her beloved home in Aberdeenshire, surrounded by grandchildren – the children of her youngest son Edward, Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor and James, Earl of Wessex, as well as great-grandchildren. At the right hand of the Queen is the eldest daughter of Mike and Zara Tindall, Mia, who holds her younger brother Lucas in her arms. Her cousin, the Queen’s eldest great-granddaughter, Savannah Phillips, smiles sweetly on her left hand. And in the row behind the sofa are four-year-old Lena Tindall, the future king, 90-year-old Prince George, his sister, 7-year-old Princess Charlotte, 11-year-old Isla Phillips, and Prince Louis, who will turn five this Sunday.
The impromptu portrait was taken at the castle by passionate amateur photographer Kate during the annual family gathering last August, shortly before the Queen’s death. A similar family photo was released following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh in 2021.
Interestingly, not all of her great-grandchildren got into the frame with the late queen. Not pictured are Princess Eugenie’s son August Brooksbank, who turned two earlier this year, and Princess Beatrice Sienna’s one-year-old daughter Mapelli Mozzi, as well as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s children, Prince Archie, three, and Princess Lilibet, one-year-old.
Whatever the reason for the absence of the latter, this fact will certainly not help only to increase the ongoing tensions in relations within the royal family. Prince William and his brother Harry, who will still attend his father’s coronation on May 6 at Westminster Abbey, are not particularly keen on reconciliation. A royal insider cited by People assured that William and Harry “do not communicate” and that their presence together “does little to help ease tensions.”
I don’t think that the coronation and the big conversation can be mixed,” he added.
Recall that the grandchildren of Elizabeth II have been at odds ever since Harry and Meghan stepped down from their royal duties in 2020.
Source: Hellomagazine
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