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Queen Elizabeth's Final Five Words refers to a series of memes parodying a news headline about the last diary entry made by Queen Elizabeth II shortly before her death. The meme imagines which five words the late queen could have written and often reference pop culture and popular catchphrases.

Origin

On November 7th, 2024, an updated version of the book Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story by British author Robert Hardman was published. The book reveals the last entry Queen Elizabeth II made in her diary on September 6th, 2022, two days before her death. The entry contains only five words: "Edward came to see me", which refers to Sir Edward Young, Queen Elizabeth's private secretary.

On November 12th, 2024, a news article about the entry was posted on the People magazine website.^[1]

On November 17th, 2024, X^[2] account @NoContextBrits posted a snippet of the article with the headline "Queen Elizabeth's Final Diary Entry Contained Only Five Words", urging users to reply with wrong answers to what that final entry could have been. The post (shown below) garnered over 7.8 million views, 3,600 reposts and 4,600 likes in three days.

Spread

In the following days, multiple users on X quoted the post with joking five-word responses, many of them referencing memes and popular culture. For example, on November 17th, 2024, X^[3] user @_JamesGtfo replied, "Stream Disease by Lady Gaga". The post (shown below) gained over 280 reposts and 3,500 likes in three days.

On November 18th, 2024, X^[4] user @fatsofan789 replied, "every ting gon be irie", referencing a scene from the 1998 film Meet Joe Black. The post (shown below) garnered over 6,600 reposts and 110,000 likes in two days.

More quote memes based on the premise went viral on X / Twitter in the following days.

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