The Queen isabel II is mourning the loss of her best friend since childhood, Lady Myra Butterthe third person close to her whom she has fired in less than a year.
Lady Myra Butter passed away this past Wednesday at the age of 97 at her residence in Londonas confirmed by the Daily Express. According to the British newspaper, the close friend of Queen Elizabeth II left this world “in peace”.
Myra Butter was a descendant of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and the playwright Alexander Pushkin, she was the granddaughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia and the Countess of Torby. Also, she was cousin of the late PhilipDuke of Edinburgh, husband of the British monarch.
One of his last television interventions he had was following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. Then, Lady Myra Butter paid tribute to the husband of her best friend and announced that her death had been “an incalculable loss” for the queen.
How did you meet?
Elizabeth II and Lady Mira They met when they were just a few girls and continued to see each other all the time. In 1937 the two entered a group known as Brownies and Guides, a kind of British girl scouts where they learned to swim, pitch tents and light fires.
His ‘troop’ was made up of other girls from the royal house, such as Princess Margaret, Elizabeth’s little sister, and the daughters of palace employees.
“It was a lot of fun, we learned to do Morse code and knots,” the deceased recalled in an interview.
The closeness was so close that even the Queen and Princess Margaret attended Lady Myra’s wedding to Major David Butter in 1946 at St Margaret’s Church in Westminster.
The loss of Myra means another hard blow for the 96-year-old Queen, who in a year has also had to say goodbye to her husband, the pprince philipand two of his most beloved ladies-in-waiting: Ann Fortune FitzRoythe Duchess of Grafton, who handled all matters relating to the Queen’s jewelery and clothing, and Diane Maxwell, Lady Farnham, who was his lady of the chamber for 34 years.