Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeThe three people the Queen had trusted the most during her reign are now dead, a royal author has claimed. According to royal biographer Matthew Dennison the monarch's closest confidants were Princess Margaret, her mother and Prince Philip. The Queen lost her sister Princess Margaret and her mother within a month and a half of one another in 2002, while Phillip died on April 9 this year. (Image: The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)"After the deaths of the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret in 2002, Philip was the sole remaining member of that group. Princess Anne and Sophie Wessex were the first to visit the Queen in a royal rota following the funeral.

Source: Daily Mirror May 16, 2021 22:52 UTC