Royal Family News: Queen Elizabeth’s Personal Staff Are “Incandescent With Grief”

British royal family news reveals that the world is in mourning for Queen Elizabeth, the UK’s longest serving monarch. She died September 8 at the age of 96 and her state funeral will be held Monday. She had been in questionable health for months and yet her death has shaken her staff, the very people she relied on day in and day out. An insider told People that, “her closest circle is especially heartbroken.”

Royal Family News – The Queen’s Staff Are Shaken

On September 8, Buckingham Palace announced that the monarch was under medical supervision and hours later they made the sad announcement that she died “peacefully” at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Her loyal personal staff “are devastated.” Many of her team members worked for Queen Elizabeth for years and they will be present at her committal service on Monday.

An insider told the outlet, “They are incandescent with grief. However much you are prepared for it, after a lifetime of service, it was still a terrible shock.”

On Monday the funeral will be attended by more than, “2,000 diplomats, dignitaries and royal family members. From there, the coffin will process on State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy to the Wellington Arch in Hyde Park, where it will be loaded into the State Hearse and driven an hour west to Windsor Castle.”

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Royal Family News: The Queen’s Staff Are Heartbroken

The committal service begins at 4 p.m. local time and King Charles III, Queen Camilla and the rest of the royal family will be seated at St. George’s Chapel. Afterward only the Queen’s personal staff and those who worked on her estates will be at the smaller ceremony which follows.

Queen Elizabeth’s personal piper will play a lament in her honor and when the service end, the Queen’s family members will gather at Windsor Castle for a small reception. The events of the day will end around 7:30 p.m., when Her Majesty is privately interred in St. George’s Chapel.

Royal Family News – The Queen’s Staff Are Devastated

The queen will be buried beside her beloved husband Prince Philip who died last year at the age of 99; they were married for 73 years. Her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and near her sister, Princess Margaret, are also buried there.

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