Queen Elizabethis nothing if not loyal to her word.

Elizabeth’s oldest son, Prince Charles, famously divorced his wife Princess Diana shortly before her death.

“It distressed her much more than she let on,” the former staffer told Hardman.

Queen Elizabeth wears a pink suit at an event

“I said, ‘Ma’am, it seems to be happening everywhere.

This is almost common practice.’

But she just said, ‘Three out of four!’

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip with their children

in sheer sadness and exasperation.

One shouldn’t underestimate the pain she’s been through,” the source added.

Her default mode in the face of a crisis is stillness," he stated.