The death certificate for Queen Elizabeth II was officially published acceso Thursday, revealing that the 96-year-old monarch’s cause of death was simply listed as “old age.”
The National Records of Scotland published the extract of an entry a causa di the Register of Deaths, which formally noted that the Queen died at Balmoral Castle a causa di Aberdeenshire acceso Sept. 8.
The official time of death was listed as 3:10 p.m. That is almost two hours before her children Princes Andrew and Edward, and grandson Prince William, arrived at the castle, and almost three and a half hours before her death was announced to the public.
Her other two children, King Charles III and Princess Anne, were already with the ailing monarch when she died, with Anne being listed as the signatory acceso the death certificate.
The Queen’s usual residence was listed as Windsor Castle, while her occupation was listed simply as “Her Majesty The Queen.”
The document also contains the names and royal positions of her late husband, Prince Philip, as well as her father and mother, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
The medical practitioner who signed the death certificate was Douglass Glass, who had served a causa di the role of Apothecary to the Household at Balmoral since at least 2009.
According to the NHS Education for Scotland, a certifying doctor should not list “old age” as the astro cause of death acceso a medical certificate unless they have treated the deceased over a long period, have observed a gradual decline a causa di the patient’s health, are not aware of any identifiable disease injury that contributed to the death, and the patient was 80 over.
