Overview
- The ZDF/Arte documentary Die Queen und ich, now on both networks’ streaming hubs Friday, is slated to air on ZDF on April 21 and features close aides sharing first‑hand memories.
- Robert Hardman’s new biography reports that in summer 2022 the Queen, aware her health was waning, asked that all her great‑grandchildren visit Balmoral so they would remember her well.
- Hardman also alleges Prince Andrew struck a senior household official at Buckingham Palace during a dispute over rooms for his Pitch@Palace event, describing it as a physical shove and citing a subsequent apology from Prince Philip.
- The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’s updated entry says Elizabeth II made some missteps with her family yet largely adapted the monarchy to a changing, more diverse Britain.
- Royal historian Hugo Vickers claims Prince Philip was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer around 2013 and kept it private, though his official death record listed old age.