During the long summer months after 's resignation on July 7, 2022, the Queen was attuned to the mounting sense that Britain was a rudderless nation. She saw it as her role to make the transfer of power and the resumption of government as swift and smooth as possible.It had even been her plan to travel down in the Royal Train and preside over the resignation of one prime minister and the appointment of another in . 'She thought it was more appropriate than dragging two busy politicians up to Scotland and back, with news helicopters following them all the way,' says a former Palace official.By late August, she had started to have a change of heart, as had her doctors. 'Although the plan had been for a return to London, she was asking if she might remain in Scotland,' says a senior official. Her private secretary, Sir Edward Young, discussed the situation with the Royal Medical Household and the Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case, who, in turn, consulted the Prime Minister.
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