Liz Truss reveals the advice Queen Elizabeth gave her before she died that the former prime minister now wishes she had listened to

The late Queen advised Liz Truss to pace herself, the former Prime Minister has revealed.

Truss met the monarch at Balmoral just two days before her death in September 2022.

In her forthcoming memoir, the former prime minister admits she did not listen to the Queen’s wise advice, in a 20-minute argument between the couple.

Truss’s 49 days in office were marked by economic turmoil – including reforms that sent the pound tumbling – before her ouster from Downing Street.

She writes about the late Queen in the book Ten Years to Save the West, which will be serialized exclusively in the Mail from Saturday: “She was completely in tune with everything that was happening, as well as being typically sharp and witty.

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‘Towards the end of our conversation, she warned me that being prime minister means getting incredibly old. She also gave me two pieces of advice: “Pace yourself.” Maybe she should have listened.’

Summoned to Scotland due to the Queen’s ill health, Truss described her as “frail” but “alert”, “absolutely aware” of everything and seemed determined to see each other again.

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Liz Truss gives a speech on her last day as Prime Minister, outside Number 10 on 25 October 2022

Faced with the news of the Queen’s death, which came just days after Truss entered No 10, the former prime minister remembers thinking: ‘Why me? Why now?’

The state ceremony and the protocol that followed left her “a long way from my natural comfort zone,” she writes. Mrs Truss said she burst into tears “in a flood of tears on the sofa”. She added: “Once again, grief was mixed with a feeling of awe at the weight of the event and the fact that it was happening under my watch.”

Ms Truss admitted that previous prime ministers might have better adapted to events by providing “the necessary fast-paced rhetoric and performative statesmanship”.

He said that, despite being under enormous political pressure, his first meeting with King Charles sparked “a strange sense of camaraderie between us as we both began our new roles and had to navigate uncharted territory.” By this time, Conservative MPs had already begun taking steps to relieve Ms Truss of her duties. As she bowed to Charles, he said, ‘So you’re back again?’

Mrs. Truss replied, “It is with great pleasure,” but the king added, “Dear, oh dear.” Anyway…’

In an interview about her book last year with The Mail on Sunday, Truss revealed that her former friendship with Kwasi Kwarteng has effectively ended.

Ms Truss sacked Mr Kwarteng as chancellor in a last-ditch attempt to prevent his demise.

When asked if they were still in touch, he said: “Occasionally.” I don’t talk to him much.