Queen Elizabeth has been dealt a huge blow by the hands of death as mourns yet again, but this time the loss of her childhood friend Lady Myra Butter, who died 29 July.
Lady Myra Butter lived to an old age of 97 before passing on.
Lady Myra Butter was a she childhood acquaintance, who was beside the young queen in swimming lessons when they were children.
So far the queen has ruled for 70 long years, within this time the queen has suffered the loss of loved ones since she mounted the throne. One of such losses was the death of her Philip in April 2021.
She also lost two ladies-in-waiting last year, Diana Maxwell and Lady Furnham (via People).
In 1937, Lady Butter was part of the 1st Buckingham Palace Company of Girl Guides with the young Elizabeth. The queen, her sister Princess Margaret, and her husband Prince Philip all attended Lady Butter’s wedding in 1946.
Lady Butter once described the Queen as a woman with a “very good sense of humour” in an article for Daily Telegraph.
As children, Lady Butter and Queen Elizabeth partook in loads of activities with other girls.
“They got hold of some girls to be part of the thing to make it more fun,” Lady Myra told the Telegraph.
“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 Butter’s death notice called her an “adored mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother,” according to Newsweek. She was 97 years old.
