Revealed: The late Queen’s poignant last recorded words – as ex-PM Liz Truss recalls how the monarch was ‘so, so on the ball’ even in her final hours

The late Queen Elizabeth II’s last recorded words 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, published in the Mail, Britain’s shortest-serving Prime Minister revealed how the Queen advised her to ‘pace herself’.

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

The queen said, “I’ll see you next week.” Ms Truss recalled: ‘I definitely thought this was going to happen.’

On September 8, just two days after the couple shook hands, the world was plunged into mourning when Queen Elizabeth’s death was announced by Buckingham Palace.

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

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

Ms Truss – who flew to Scotland after beating Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest in the summer of 2022 – survived just 49 days in the role.

Her short tenure was marred by economic turmoil – including reforms that sent the pound plummeting – before she was booted out of Number 10.

Speaking about last meeting the Queen on The Sun’s Never Mind the Ballots show, Mrs Truss said: ‘She was an extremely wise woman and all, so on the ball.’

The Mail has 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, but was also typically sharp and witty.

‘Towards the end of our conversation she warned me that the premiership is incredibly aging. She also gave me two words of advice: “Keep your pace.” Maybe I should have listened.’

Mrs Truss was called to Scotland due to the Queen’s ill health and described her as ‘frail’ but ‘alert’, ‘absolutely on top of things’ and seemed intent on meeting again.

The Queen used a walking stick at the time because she suffered from occasional mobility problems.

When news of the Queen’s death came – just days after Mrs Truss entered Number 10 – the former Prime Minister remembers thinking: ‘Why me? Why now?’

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

‘Ten years to save the West’: the new book by former Prime Minister Liz Truss

Ms Truss admitted that previous Prime Ministers may have been better suited to events by providing ‘the sheer rhetoric and performative statesmanship that was required’.

She said that despite being under enormous political pressure, her first meeting with King Charles “generated a bizarre sense of camaraderie between us, both of us settling into our new roles and venturing into uncharted territory.” At the time, Tory MPs had already started taking steps to relieve Ms Truss of her duties. As she bowed to Charles, he said, “So you’ve come back?”

Mrs. Truss replied, “It is a great pleasure,” but the King added, “My 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 in Balmoral she was absolutely aware of what was happening,” she told GB News at the time.

‘She really wanted to reassure me that we would see each other again soon. It was very important to her.

‘I had met the Queen before when I was Minister of Justice. I’ve met her several times. And although she was physically quite weak, she was always mentally alert and determined to do her duty.”