THE Queen has suffered another loss after one of closest friends passed away on Friday.
Ann Fortune FitzRoy, the Duchess of Grafton, passed away aged 101, leaving more heartache for the Queen.
It comes less than a year since Her Majesty’s husband Prince Philip, who she called her “strength and guide” died aged 99 in April and her grandson Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left for the US.
Fortune – who was appointed the Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1980 – served the Royal Household for the monarch’s entire 69-year reign and made her Majesty the godmother to her second daughter, Lady Virginia FitzRoy, in 1954.
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