Queen Elizabeth II has reportedly lost one of her close childhood friends and a member of her inner circle.
Lady Myra Butter died aged 97 on July 29 in her London home, according to a death notice published in the UK’s Daily Telegraph.
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Elizabeth and her late sister Princess Margaret were childhood friends with Lady Myra and attended her 1946 wedding to Major David Butter.
Myra was a part of the first Buckingham Palace Company of Girl Guides with Elizabeth in 1937 – back when the Queen was still a princess.
Last year, Lady Myra looked back on her role in the Girl Guides, telling The Telegraph: “They got hold of some girls to be part of the thing to make it more fun.
“In the Guides and the Brownies it was a real mixture, which was really nice, some friends, friends of (the family), and all the people in the royal mews, their children, they were Brownies and Guides. Just a normal sort of pack really.”
Lady Myra remained in Elizabeth’s inner circle and was a source of comfort after the Queen lost her husband Prince Philip in April 2021, aged 99.
Lady Myra was also a cousin of Prince Philip and descended from Russian royalty.
After Philip’s death, Lady Myra spoke publicly about the impact he had in supporting the Queen throughout her reign.
“There’s nobody, in my mind, who could have done that job. Nobody. Dedicated to it, and very intelligent and youthful,” she told The Telegraph.
She added Elizabeth has a “very good sense of humor which has gone on for all her life”.
Queen’s year of heartbreak
Along with losing her husband in 2021, the monarch farewelled two ladies-in-waiting.
Ann Fortune FitzRoy, the Duchess of Grafton died on December 3 at the age of 101.
From 1967 until her death, she had worked as the Queen’s Mistress of the Robes.
The Queen also lost Diana Maxwell, Baroness Farnham who died at the age of 90 in December. She had served as the Queen’s Lady of the Bedchamber for 34 years.
In January, the Queen suffered her third blow in just over a month with the death of long-time friend, racing journalist, author and horse trainer Ivor Herbert.
Herbert, a regular visitor to the Queen’s Balmoral estate in Scotland, died on January 5 at the age of 96.
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