Boris Johnson claims late Queen had bone cancer in tell all memoir

In his tell-all memoir, the disgraced Tory and erstwhile Prime Minister besides appeared to interruption normal by revealing proposal fixed to him by the monarch conscionable 2 days earlier she died

Boris Johnson has claimed the precocious Queen was suffering from bony crab successful her last year.

In his tell-all memoir, the disgraced Tory besides appeared to interruption normal by revealing proposal fixed to him by the monarch conscionable 2 days earlier she died. Johnson visited the Queen astatine Balmoral to formally resign arsenic Prime Minister connected September 6, 2022 – the aforesaid time the past photograph of the Queen was taken, arsenic she invited Liz Truss to go the adjacent PM.

Elizabeth II died aged 96 2 days later, with her decease certificate listing “old age” arsenic the origin of death. But successful his publication Unleashed, which is being serialised by the Mail, Johnson said helium had known “for a twelvemonth oregon more” that she had bony cancer.

He recalled the precocious Queen being airy with bruising connected her hands during the last meeting. But helium said her caput was “unimpaired by her illness”. Johnson, who was fixed an beforehand of £510,000 for Unleashed, was turfed retired of bureau by his ain MPs aft breaking lockdown rules successful the Partygate scandal.

In his book, helium adds: “She was amazed by the wide deficiency of bitterness, fixed what had happened astatine Westminster, but she approved. There’s nary constituent successful bitterness,’ she said, and amen to that. If everyone successful authorities – and beingness – could spot that arsenic intelligibly arsenic she did, the world would beryllium a much, overmuch happier place.”

In a biography of the Queen published successful 2022, writer Gyles Brandreth said helium had heard she had been suffering from bony marrow cancer. He wrote: “The astir communal grounds of myeloma is bony pain, particularly successful the pelvis and little back, and aggregate myeloma is simply a illness that often affects the elderly.”