Queen Elizabeth’s cause of death

[Filuwaúrdjan]

She definitely did, even if the palace was and still is coy about them. And her decline in the last 18 months or so (Philip's death being a major factor there, of course) was evident and undeniable.

It's reasonably obvious what it was and I'm a little baffled as to why the Palace are being coy about it, but, in the end, at that sort of age it basically is 'Old Age', isn't it?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Though both were massive smokers, and she wasn't.

Genuine chain-smokers, both. George smoked so much due to stress after he unexpectedly had the Throne foisted on him that his widow considered his brother to be the moral equivalent of a murderer and, well, fair enough.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's a slightly weird area, but the name used depends on the sort of paperwork in question. Officially they do not have surnames, but when a surname is required for something legal the standard has become 'Mountbatten-Windsor' when descended from the marriage of Elizabeth and Philip. Again a slightly bizarre legal fiction, but such is the monarchy.