Queen Elizabeth's Nervous Breakdown: Inside Story

0:00It's April 8th, entertainment and celebrity news. Today starts now, AI-powered and spotlight-ready. I'm Cory with the story. Queen Elizabeth II faced massive stress back in 1969. Almost leading to a nervous breakdown says Royal expert Robert Hardman. In his new book, that summer, her son Prince Charles turned 21 and got invested as Prince of Wales in a huge ceremony at Carnafond Castle. Things got scary with Welsh separatists bombing sites across Wales, even killing people right before and during the event. The Queen worried nonstop about her son's safety amid all that terror threat, plus global unrest making everything feel explosive. Afterward, she skipped a full week of duties, retreated to bed in London Palace, blamed it on the flu in early July, but insiders called it nervous. Exhaustion, the closest she ever came to cracking. Hardman dropped these details on a recent palace confidential show, giving us fresh insight into her private struggles before the book hits shelves.

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