{"id":3250,"date":"2025-04-02T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2025-04-02T01:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T01:00:46","slug":"queen-elizabeth-death-certificate-lists-old-age-as-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3250","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth Death Certificate Lists Old Age As Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-module=\"subbuzz-text\">\n<p>The death certificate for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/davidmack\/queen-elizabeth-dead\" target=\"_blank\">Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> was officially published on Thursday, revealing that the 96-year-old monarch&#8217;s cause of death was simply listed as &#8220;old age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The National Records of Scotland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrscotland.gov.uk\/files\/\/images\/entry-in-the-register-of-deaths-hm-the-queen.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> the extract of an entry in the Register of Deaths, which formally noted that the Queen died at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire on Sept. 8.<\/p>\n<p>The official time of death was listed as 3:10 p.m. That is almost two hours before her children Princes Andrew and Edward, and grandson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/kristenharris1\/celebrities-who-dated-fans\">Prince William<\/a>, arrived at the castle, and almost three and a half hours before her death was announced to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Her other two children, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/davidmack\/king-charles-first-speech-queen-death\" target=\"_blank\">King Charles III<\/a> and Princess Anne, were already with the ailing monarch when she died, with Anne being listed as the signatory on the death certificate.<\/p>\n<p>The Queen&#8217;s usual residence was listed as Windsor Castle, while her occupation was listed simply as &#8220;Her Majesty The Queen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The document also contains the names and royal positions of her late husband, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/juliareinstein\/prince-philip-drivers-license-car-crash\">Prince Philip<\/a>, as well as her father and mother, King George VI and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/briangalindo\/historic-photos-that-will-blow-your-mind\">Queen Elizabeth<\/a>, the Queen Mother.<\/p>\n<p>The medical practitioner who signed the death certificate was Douglass Glass, who had served in the role of Apothecary to the Household at Balmoral <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/archive\/200912\" target=\"_blank\">since at least 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sad.scot.nhs.uk\/atafter-death\/death-certification\/part-c\/\" target=\"_blank\">NHS Education for Scotland<\/a>, a certifying doctor should not list &#8220;old age&#8221; as the sole cause of death on a medical certificate unless they have treated the deceased over a long period, have observed a gradual decline in the patient&#8217;s health, are not aware of any identifiable disease or injury that contributed to the death, and the patient was 80 or over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/davidmack\/queen-elizabeth-death-certificate-cause-old-age\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death certificate for Queen Elizabeth II was officially published on Thursday, revealing that the 96-year-old monarch&#8217;s cause of death was simply listed as &#8220;old age.&#8221; The National Records of Scotland published the extract of an entry in the Register of Deaths, which formally noted that the Queen died at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}