“Towards the end of our discussion, she warned me that being prime minister is incredibly aging. She also gave me two words of advice: ‘Pace yourself.’ Maybe I should have listened.”
Previously, the former Tory leader said the Queen was “absolutely determined to do her duty” when the monarch confirmed her as the new British prime minister.
She said: “She was absolutely on top of what was happening and very, very, keen to reassure me we would be meeting again soon.
“I was obviously in the first few days of being prime minister and thinking about the many, many different things. But the assumption, absolutely, was this would be the first of many, many meetings.
“She was very determined to do her duty, and right to the end we had a very, very good meeting, and she was upbeat.”
Ms Truss’s book, Ten Years To Save The West, will be published in the UK and US next week.
