Queen Elizabeth II’s death certificate was officially published on Thursday, revealing that the 96-year-old monarch’s cause of death was listed simply as “old age”.
The National Records of Scotland published an extract from the entry in the Register of Deaths, which formally noted that the Queen died on September 8 at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire.
The official time of death was listed as 3:10 p.m., about two hours before her sons Princes Andrew and Edward and grandson Prince William arrived at the castle, and about three and a half hours before her death was announced to the public.
Her two other children, King Charles III and Princess Anne, were already with the ailing monarch when he died, with Anne listed as a signatory on the death certificate.
The Queen’s usual residence is listed as Windsor Castle, but her occupation is listed as “Her Majesty the Queen”.
The document contains the names and royal positions of her late husband Prince Philip, as well as her father and mother, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
The medical practitioner who signed the death certificate was Douglas Glass, who had served the household at Balmoral in the role of apothecary since at least 2009.
According to Scotland’s NHS Education, certifying doctors should not list “old age” as the sole cause of death on a medical certificate unless they had not treated the deceased for a long time, observed a gradual decline in the patient’s health, were unaware of any identifiable disease or injury that caused the death, and the patient was aged 80 or over.
