Queen Elizabeth II’s officially recorded cause of death was “old age”, according to her death certificate. The certificate was signed by her daughter, Princess Anne, and released by National Records of Scotland, and it lists her occupation simply as “Her Majesty The Queen”.
The certificate records the time of death as 3:10 pm on 8 September 2022 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where the Queen, aged 96, had been staying. A memo from her private secretary, Sir Edward Young, describing how she died peacefully, has also been cited in accounts of those final hours.
Her death was followed by a national mourning period, and a state funeral was held on 19 September 2022 at Westminster Abbey, attended by around 2,000 people. King Charles paid tribute to her life of service as he succeeded her.
One note on the framing: this is the death certificate from 2022, not a new revelation — the cause of death has been on the public record since then. The headline’s “confirmed” wording repackages that record for a new audience, but the document itself is now several years old.