23 Mar QUEEN ON “TOP FORM” DESPITE MOBILITY ISSUES, SAYS BIOGRAPHER
THE Queen is on top form mentally though she has “mobility issues”, her biographer said today.
Robert Hardman said she was in “very good spirits” amid recent reports she was now largely confined to a wheelchair.
Speaking on GB News, Robert, the author of a new book on the Queen’s life, said: “Mobility is something of an issue now…I’m told by those very close to her that she’s in very good spirits, you know – absolutely pin sharp as ever.
“But, but there is a mobility [issue] inevitably when you’re coming up to your 96th birthday and also dignity, I think it’s terribly important.
“She is the Queen, she wants to be seen as the Queen, she wants to look the part.”
Hardman is the author of the new book “Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II” published by Macmillan.
The Monarch personally granted him rare access to the usually private Royal archives at Windsor Castle to help with the research.
In an appearance on Breakfast with Eamonn and Isabel on GB News this morning, he said: “I was very lucky in researching this and I was given access to the royal archives which are atop Windsor Castle in the big tower.
“Under lock and key there are the King’s wartime diaries, all 11 volumes of them, and the Queen gave me access to have a look at those
“They are fascinating because they’re not just sort of ‘what I did today’ type diaries. I mean, they’re very honest.”
He said Her Majesty will have a keen interest in the current tour of the Caribbean by the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William.
“He and the Duchess would have had a chat with the Queen before going on this trip [to] the Caribbean where she is queen of all these countries and they’ll have a chat when they come back.”
Mr Hardman’s comments come two days after Christopher Biggins told GB News he’d been told the Queen was now largely confined to a wheelchair. The entertainer said it was “very sad” but that he hoped she’d be well enough to enjoy the upcoming anniversary celebrations.
