Revealed: Poignant last recorded words of late Queen – as former PM Liz Truss recalls how monarch was ‘so, so on the ball’ even in her final hours

The last recorded words of the late Queen Elizabeth II have been revealed by former Prime Minister Liz Truss.

Mrs Truss, 48, visited Britain’s longest-serving monarch at her beloved Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, just two days before her death in September 2022.

In her new memoir, which was serialized in the Mail, Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister revealed how she was advised by the Queen to ‘pace’ herself.

Mrs Truss – the last of the 15 Prime Ministers to serve the Queen – has now told The sun the last six words the monarch told her as their meeting ended on September 6, 2022.

The Queen said: ‘I’ll see you again next week.’ Ms Truss recalled: “I absolutely thought it was going to happen.”

But on September 8, just two days after the pair were pictured shaking hands, the world was thrown into mourning when Queen Elizabeth’s death was announced by Buckingham Palace.

Liz Truss (pictured) was the last of the 15 prime ministers who served the late Queen Elizabeth II

The official cause of death would later be recorded as ‘old age’.

Mrs Truss – who had flown to Scotland after defeating Rishi Sunak in the summer 2022 Tory leadership contest – survived just 49 days in her role.

Her short tenure was marked by economic turmoil – including reforms that sent the pound tumbling – before she was ousted from No.10.

Speaking about the last meeting with the Queen on The Sun’s Never Mind the Ballots show, Mrs Truss said: ‘She was an extremely clever woman and that’s fine.’

The Mail previously revealed that Mrs Truss writes of the late Queen in the book, Ten Years To Save The West: ‘She was completely attuned to everything that was happening, as well as being typically sharp and witty.

“Toward the end of our discussion, she warned me that it is incredible to become prime minister. She also gave me two pieces of advice: “Face yourself.” Maybe I should have listened’.

Summoned to Scotland because of the Queen’s ill health, Mrs Truss described her as ‘weak’ but ‘alert’, ‘quite on top’ of things and seemed keen to meet again.

At the time, the Queen used a walking stick because she suffered from episodic mobility problems.

Following the news of the Queen’s death – which came just days after Mrs Truss entered No 10 – the former prime minister recalls thinking: ‘Why me? Why now?’

The state ceremony and protocol that followed left her ‘far from my natural comfort zone’, she writes. Mrs Truss said she broke down ‘into tidal waves of tears on the sofa’. She added: ‘Once again the sadness was mixed with a sense of awe at the gravity of the event and the fact that it happened on my watch.’

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Mrs Truss admitted that previous prime ministers may have been better suited to the events, providing “the soaring rhetoric and performative statesmanship that is required”.

She said that despite being under massive political pressure, her first meeting with King Charles sparked “a bizarre sense of camaraderie between us, both starting out in our new roles and having to navigate uncharted territory”. By then, Tory MPs had already begun to take steps to relieve Mrs Truss of her duties. When she turned to Charles he said, “So you’ve come back again?”

Mrs Truss replied: ‘It is a great pleasure,’ but the King added: ‘Dear, oh dear. Anyway…’

On the anniversary of the Queen’s death in September 2023, Ms Truss said the Queen was ‘mentally alert’ during their meeting.

At the meeting at Balmoral she was completely on top of what was happening,’ she told GB News at the time.

‘She was very, very keen to assure me that we would meet again soon. It was very important to her.

‘I had met the Queen before when I was Minister of Justice. I have met her on several occasions. And although physically quite frail, she was always absolutely mentally alert and determined to do her duty.’