This summer marks the Royal Family’s first annual summer getaway to Balmoral since the death of the Queen last September and King Charles and Camilla are expected to mark the anniversary privately
King Charles and Camilla will mark the anniversary of the death of the long-serving Queen Elizabeth privately. No public event is planned to commemorate the late Queen’s death.
Charles and Camilla are on their annual summer break and are not expected to hold a private family gathering at the Balmoral estate. Instead they will mark the anniversary privately, it is understood. Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, died peacefully at Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, on September 8 last year, aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.
Her death was the moment her son and heir Charles became King, and the date will remain a poignant period for the head of state.
It is understood the King and Queen are not expected to attend any public engagements during the week of the anniversary. The late Queen used to mark the passing of her father King George VI, who died on February 6 1952, privately at Sandringham.