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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Rachael Bletchly

'The Queen's raw emotion was concealed behind armour she has relied on for decades'

Every night, before she retires, the Queen sits down to write her private diary, dashing off detailed and colourful accounts of all the day’s events.

Friends say Lilibet started these journals when she was just a girl. But they would soon become an indispensable part of her record-breaking 70-year reign.

Because the secret diaries of Elizabeth II are the guardians of her most private thoughts and feelings.

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