Queen Elizabeth II Dead astatine 96: Relive Her Extraordinary Royal Life

Despite the tragic circumstances, Kate Middleton is trying to springiness her children a mean archetypal day.

While galore elder members of the royal family, including Prince William, traveled to Queen Elizabeth II's Balmoral Estate successful Scotland, wherever she passed distant connected Sept. 8 astatine property 96, the Duchess of Cambridge remained successful Windsor amid her children's archetypal time of school.

After attending a preview time connected Sept. 7, Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 7, and Prince Louis, 4, marked their archetypal authoritative time of classes astatine Lambrook School successful Windsor, England. 

Back successful August, William and Kate confirmed successful a property merchandise that their children would beryllium attending a caller school after the household relocated to Windsor from London. According to the school's website, the campus is equipped with a 25-meter swimming pool, a performing arts halfway and an orchard with chickens and rabbits.

The young royals' first day of school, however, volition present beryllium overshadowed by the death of their great-grandmother. On Sept. 8, the royal household confirmed the quality connected their authoritative societal media platforms, writing, "The Queen died peacefully astatine Balmoral this afternoon."

The Queen, who has been experiencing mobility problems successful caller months, had a engaged week earlier her passing, which included appointing Liz Truss as the caller Prime Minister connected Sept. 6.

The next day, the Queen—following doctor's orders—postponed a gathering of her virtual Privy Council advisers. 

While Her Majesty stayed engaged with a assortment of royal engagements adjacent successful the last years of her life, immoderate royal watchers grew acrophobic astir her heath aft the Queen started utilizing a cane and was concisely hospitalized successful October 2021 for an undisclosed ailment.