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The queen’s self-proclaimed annus horribilis in 1992 had left her so shocked that she was “inconsolable.”
According to royal biographer Andrew Morton, the aforementioned year was marked by months of crisis that included the burning of part of Windsor Castle, the revelation of Princess Diana, and Prince Andrew’s divorce from Sarah Ferguson.
However, Morton writes in his book Elizabeth and Margaret that the Queen found her strength in her sister, Princess Margaret.
Fortunately for Elizabeth, Margaret was there for her in 1992, the queen’s annus horribilis. The worst year of the Queen’s reign began with the separation in March of the Duke and Duchess of York and continued with the divorce in April of their daughter, Princess Anne, from Captain Mark Phillips, “he wrote.
This was followed by a devastating fire at Windsor Castle in November. When the Queen, dressed in a green raincoat and matching hat, came to visit the smoking ruins, she looked completely devastated.
“The castle, an icon in British history, had also been his home for most of his life. He retired to the Royal Lodge and spent the weekend with Margaret and her mother, almost inconsolable.”
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