{"id":189684,"date":"2026-04-08T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189684\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:51:13","slug":"queen-elizabeths-hopes-for-her-great-grandkids-before-she-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189684\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth’s Hopes for Her Great-Grandkids Before She Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his new biography of Queen Elizabeth, royal author Robert Hardman<\/a> chronicles her incredible 70-year reign<\/a>, including the late Queen\u2019s final days<\/a>. Queen Elizabeth died at the age of 96<\/a> in September 2022, making her final major public appearance that June during her Platinum Jubilee<\/a>. Before her health continued to decline, Hardman says the late Queen expressed one last wish for her 12 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

In an excerpt from the book shared in the Daily Mail, Hardman wrote that the late Queen hoped to gather the Royal Family one last time in Scotland. As was tradition for decades, Queen Elizabeth traveled to Balmoral Castle<\/a> one last time that summer, and she wanted all 12 of her great-grandkids, including Prince George<\/a>, Princess Charlotte<\/a> and Prince Louis<\/a>, to be there for a \u201chappy\u201d time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Queen wanted all the great-grandchildren to come up to Balmoral at some point over that summer, even if the Sussexes might not be able to make it,\u201d Hardman wrote.<\/p>\n

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The late Queen made her final public appearance with her heirs on June 5, 2022.<\/p>\n

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The author continued that a \u201cfriend of the family\u201d told him it was important for Queen Elizabeth that her youngest family members could spend time with her before she died. \u201cShe wanted to make sure that they all had a really happy memory of her,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Former royal butler Grant Harrold recently shared that \u201call sorts of crazy fun things<\/a> used to happen up there\u201d at Balmoral, and the late Queen certainly would have gone out of her way to make sure her family enjoyed their final summer together.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe’d make sure that every summer they were there, and it was part of the annual break and there were lots of different activities and things going on,\u201d Harrold shared. \u201cThere were numerous visits, like\u00a0Highland Games<\/a>\u00a0and the Ghillies balls. It was a real fun time for them to be up there and it went on for certainly for two months\u2014but a bit longer for The King.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Queen Elizabeth shares a moment with Prince Louis during her Platinum Jubilee.<\/p>\n

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Although Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet<\/a> weren\u2019t able to make the trip to Scotland with their parents, Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan Markle, the Wales family traveled to Balmoral<\/a> that summer to spend time with Her Majesty.<\/p>\n

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Along with George, Charlotte and Louis, the late Queen\u2019s other great-grandchildren included Sienna Mapelli Mozzi<\/a> (Princess Beatrice<\/a> and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi\u2019s daughter), August Brooksbank<\/a> (Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank\u2019s son), Savannah and Isla Phillips<\/a> (Peter Phillips and ex-wife Autumn Kelly\u2019s kids), and Zara and Mike Tindall\u2019s children, Mia, Lena and Lucas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Queen Elizabeth gained two more great-grandkids after her death when Beatrice\u2019s youngest daughter, Athena<\/a>, and Eugenie\u2019s youngest son, Ernest<\/a>, were born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his new biography of Queen Elizabeth, royal author Robert Hardman chronicles her incredible 70-year reign, including the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-189684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}