Mourning at Windsor House. Queen Elizabeth II has lost another person who was particularly close to her heart
Really difficult and particularly painful moment for them Queen Elizabeth the second. Unfortunately, the long-lived and now historic Sovereign of England has to contend with several losses and painful sorrow.
Queen Elizabeth II in mourning (web source)
After the death of his beloved husband, the prince PhilipQueen Elizabeth also said goodbye to her Ann Fortune FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton, his maid of honor since 1967. Unfortunately, the pain didn’t end there.
Elizabeth II also made sure a few days ago the death of another woman that has been with her for many years. A kind of faithful guide and shoulder through all these years of government.
Farewell to Lady Butter, one of Elizabeth II’s closest confidants
A few days earlier the news of Lady Myra Butter’s disappearance. A name that the international public might not consider familiar or familiar, but it is one of Queen Elizabeth’s closest friends and advisers.
Queen Elizabeth did not have many sincere friendships during her life as sovereign, but mainly had institutional or family relationships. but Lady Butter was one of the few “shoulders” the queen for many years.
The woman, disappeared at the age of 97She was a cousin of Prince Philip. Also related to Elisabetta, but the two had known and dated before the Queen’s coronation in 1952.
Queen’s childhood friend has died aged 97 https://t.co/3lXtRRYHIL
– Chron Online (@Web) August 4, 2022
A true childhood friend, as the Chron writes. Elizabeth and Lady Myra have been spending their free time together for yearswith long horseback rides and picnics or by taking swimming lessons at the Bath Club on Dover Street.
A character from other times, but with great modernity. That’s how it is described Lady Myra Butter defending her cousin Philip at the time of his engagement to the future Sovereignty Elizabeth by those who considered him unfit to marry the Queen of England.
Additionally, due to her Russian roots (she was the great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas I), Lady Butter chose to design the Pushkin Prize for Literature, based in Scotland, which brought together Scottish students and students from St. Petersburg. But he dared to publicly denounce Putin and Russia after the recent invasion of Ukraine.