Late monarch Queen Elizabeth went to a unprecedented effort to provide a poignant “last salute” to royal followers that had gathered to rejoice her 70-year reign, a e-book claimed. The monarch flew by helicopter from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace for the celebrations in June final 12 months and her plan which was meticulously designed included her not being seen utilizing a wheelchair on the balcony.

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The revelations are available in a e-book by royal correspondent Robert Jobson.

“On her insistence, a military-style exercise was put in place so that no one could see she was having to use a wheelchair. In considerable discomfort, Her Majesty was taken by wheelchair to the helicopter pad at Windsor,” the e-book acknowledged.

“At the Palace, she was wheeled right up to the balcony doors, then helped to her feet so that she could stand – with the aid of a walking stick – alongside Charles and Camilla, plus William and his family. After a firework display, the Queen smiled with delight. It was her last salute to her people”,” it added.

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Queen Elizabeth was seen in an emerald inexperienced outfit on the Buckingham Palace balcony amid final 12 months’s Platinum Jubilee following which she issued a transferring letter to the nation saying, “My heart has been with you all.”

After that, she was unable to attend thanksgiving celebrations at St Paul’s Cathedral- thus making the balcony look her final.

The service was dominated by the attendance of Prince Harry and Meghan, making their first joint royal look since quitting their duties.

The Queen had made it clear her presence at occasions of non-public significance, such because the Commonwealth and Cenotaph companies, shouldn’t come at any price, it was revealed final 12 months.

In explicit, Palace aides had been anxious to not replicate {a photograph} of the Queen’s late sister, Princess Margaret, in a wheelchair, six months earlier than she died.