The late Queen told George Carey “I can’t resign” when the then-Archbishop of Canterbury announced he was stepping down, a new documentary reveals. Lord Carey recounted his conversation with the monarch in The Real Crown: Inside the House of Windsor, a five-part ITV series, adding: “But she would never go anyway.”
He also describes how before Charles and Camilla married he arranged a secret meeting with the now Queen Consort, in the south-east London flat of his son, to get to know the future royal. The series chronicles the royal family throughout the Queen’s reign and her successor the King, featuring interviews with contemporary figures.
Lord Carey, tells the final episode of the documentary series: “I remember going to see the Queen once to hand in my resignation and said: ‘Your Majesty the time has come.’ And she looked at me, more or less she said: ‘You people come and go, I can’t resign, I can’t surrender – I’ve got to keep going’.
