After flying successful for a scheduled interview with Queen Consort Camilla, Jenna Bush Hager's clip successful Scotland began arsenic expected.
 
However, things would rapidly instrumentality a tragic crook connected Sept. 8 erstwhile Buckingham Palace announced that doctors were "concerned" for Queen Elizabeth II's health, which led her eldest son, King Charles III and his woman Camilla to unreserved to her broadside successful Balmoral—with the 96-year-old passing distant hours later.
 
Now, arsenic Jenna shared, quality of the Queen's wellness whitethorn person travel astatine a daze to the royals, considering her acquisition eating with Charles the nighttime before. "I did get to person meal with Prince Charles connected the past nighttime helium would beryllium prince," she said during the Sept. 12 occurrence of Today. Referring to the Queen, she continued, "I deliberation it was a surprise, I mean we had a fantastic evening, filled with conversation, it felt joyful."
 
The Today analogous besides recalled mounting up for their sit-down the adjacent morning, erstwhile Camilla and Charles' squad informed her that their interrogation would person to beryllium postponed aft they received a call.

.@JennaBushHager is backmost aft she was successful Scotland primitively to interrogation Camilla, the queen consort. She recounts what that day was similar close earlier the quality of Queen Elizabeth II's death. pic.twitter.com/ydpLpD3JYr

"They said, ‘The Queen is ill, and they person gone and rushed disconnected to beryllium with her," Jenna continued. "And we conscionable said, ‘Our hearts are with them.'"

After Queen Elizabeth II's passing, Charles released a connection honoring the precocious British monarch.
 
"The decease of my beloved Mother, Her Majesty The Queen, is simply a infinitesimal of the top sadness for maine and each members of my family," the royal wrote successful a Sept. 8 statement shared by Buckingham Palace. "We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished Sovereign and a much-loved Mother. I cognize her nonaccomplishment volition beryllium profoundly felt passim the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless radical astir the world."
 
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