‘Devastated’ last physician to deal with Queen Elizabeth made upsetting discovery earlier than she died
The last doctor to see the late Queen before she died had a heart-wrenching discovery whilst tending to the monarch.
Dr Douglas James Allan Glass, who bore witness to the Queen’s final breath and etched her demise in the history books after dedicating 34 years of service as top doc to the Royal Household in Balmoral, handled the Queen’s wobbles and even a nasty bout of the lurgy in the run-up to her final farewell.
He dished out the harsh truth as the royals and medics prepped for the inevitable, with months bracing for her departure. “It was expected and we were quite aware of what was going to happen,” Dr Glass told Gyles Brandreth in his tell-all book, Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait.
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As the medic watched Her Majesty’s health dwindle, the Daily Express reports his worries took a grim turn towards the inevitable. On her last day, Robert Hardman documents in Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story, Dr Glass clocked another visit, noting Liz was holding on but nearing the twilight of her time.
When time stood still at 3.10pm on September 8, 2022, and the Queen was declared gone from this world, Dr Glass penned down nothing but “old age” as the stealer of her breath. But, way before the curtains closed on the Queen’s chapter, the good doctor was already a legend in safeguarding the wellness of the Windsor clan, reports the Daily Record.
In a royal revelation from 1999, it emerged that Dr Glass tended to Princess Margaret after she scalded her feet badly during a bath mishap while holidaying in Mustique. Subsequently recovering for an extensive period at Balmoral, the Princess later returned South.
Expressing their gratitude, her private secretary Lord Ullswater penned on behalf of the Royals: “All of us would wish to thank you and your nurses for your untiring support and attention while she was at Balmoral over the last month or more.”
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Dr Glass’s aid was crucial in May 1993 when the Queen Mother narrowly escaped death, nearly choking on a fish bone at Balmoral—the third scare of this nature following episodes at Buckingham Palace in 1982 and Balmoral in 1986. Successful surgery at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary removed the obstruction.
Away from Royal duties, the devoted doctor served as a GP in Aberdeenshire’s Braemar village, close to Balmoral Castle, reportedly working at the Braemar Health Clinic from 1986 until at least July 2020.
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