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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Laura Elston

Beatrice and Eugenie express grief in goodbye message to their ‘dear Grannie’

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Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie have paid a moving, heartfelt tribute addressed to the Queen, saying: “Goodbye dear Grannie, it has been the honour of our lives to have been your granddaughters.”

The sisters, in a written message released as they prepared to mount a vigil around the late monarch’s coffin, thanked their grandmother for “making us laugh, for including us, for picking heather and raspberries, for marching soldiers, for our teas, for comfort, for joy”.

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