Liz Truss has revealed the late Queen Elizabeth II told her to “pace herself” during their first and last meeting as Prime Ministers.

Truss admits in her new book, The Decade That Saved the West, that she didn’t take the monarch’s advice when they met September 2022 Confirm her as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Speaking about the historic meeting at Balmoral Castle in Scotland two days before her death, Truss said the 96-year-old queen “seems to have become frailer” since she was last seen in public.

“We spent about 20 minutes discussing politics. She was completely attuned to everything that happened and was characteristically sharp and witty,” she wrote.

“Towards the end of our discussion, she warned me that it was very old to be prime minister. She also gave me two pieces of advice: “Pace yourself. “Maybe I should listen.”

At the meeting, the Queen was pictured leaning on a cane, greeting Ms Truss and smiling warmly in front of a fire in the living room.

The meeting captured the last public photo of the late Queen before her death on September 8, 2022, at her residence in Scotland.

Ms Truss’s book delves into that visit and other stories from her brief tenure as prime minister, which lasted just 49 days.

She traveled to Balmoral Castle to meet Queen Elizabeth II on September 6, describing the monarch as “frail” but “sober” ahead of the book’s publication.

Ms Truss said the Queen had been summoned to the Scottish palace due to her health. However, she found her namesake to be “absolutely in control” and seemed intent on meeting again.

“She was very, very keen to assure me that we would see each other again soon… that was very important to her,” Ms Truss told me UK news September 2023.

“She had a complete grasp of what was going on. Although she was physically weak, she was absolutely clear mentally.”

Ms Truss added that there was no indication that the Queen’s death might be imminent. Truss writes in her new book that the news came as a “profound shock” to her and made her think, “Why me? Why now?”

“Obviously I’ve only just become prime minister. I’m thinking about a lot of different things,” Ms Truss told GB in 2023.

“But the absolute assumption is that this will be the first of many meetings [with the Queen].

“She was very determined to fulfill her role until the end. We had a very, very good meeting. She was optimistic.”

in promoting her book to people. Posted on Sunday Last September, Ms Truss revealed that her previously close political friendship with Kwasi Kwarteng, whom she sacked as prime minister, had effectively ended.

She admitted she “still struggles to wrap up what happened” during the turbulent times in Downing Street.

“I was fighting against a system, against an orthodoxy that was moving increasingly to the left,” she said, recalling a “seismic” period in politics, naming the Bank of England and the Office for Budget Responsibility in particular.