Queen Elizabeth II had bone cancer, former U.K. PM Boris Johnson claims

The precocious Queen Elizabeth II had a signifier of bone cancer successful her last years, erstwhile U.K. prime curate Boris Johnson has controversially claimed successful his memoir.

In an extract from Unleashed, owed retired aboriginal this period and serialized by the Daily Mail, Johnson broke royal protocol and shared that the monarch was suffering from bony crab earlier she died successful 2022.

He wrote that 2 days earlier the Queen’s Sept. 8, 2022, death, helium travelled to Balmoral Castle successful Scotland to formally resign from his post, arsenic is customary. The Queen appointed Liz Truss to beryllium the U.K.’s caller premier minister.

Her authoritative origin of decease was recorded arsenic “old age” but Johnson said she had bony crab and knew “all summertime that she was going.”

“Edward Young, her backstage secretary, tried to hole me,” Johnson wrote. “I had known for a twelvemonth oregon much that she had a signifier of bony cancer, and her doctors were disquieted that astatine immoderate clip she could participate a crisp decline.

“‘She’s gone down rather a spot implicit the summer,’ helium said. And past the footman knocked and showed maine into Her Majesty’s drafting room.”

Johnson wrote that during their last visit, the Queen appeared “pale and much stooped, and she had acheronian ­bruising connected her hands and wrists, astir apt from drips oregon injections.”

However, helium besides wrote that she remained mentally crisp and described her agleam smile.

“But her mind—as Edward had besides said—was wholly ­unimpaired by her illness, and from clip to clip successful our ­conversation she inactive flashed that large achromatic grin successful its abrupt mood-lifting beauty.”

He besides wrote that Elizabeth shared with him 1 past “crucial” portion of proposal during the visit.

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“‘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 satellite would beryllium a much, overmuch happier place,” helium shared.

Johnson served arsenic the 14th premier curate to clasp the presumption during the queen’s historical 70-year reign.

His admittance is apt to rise eyebrows astatine Buckingham Palace, arsenic the Royal Family is notoriously tight-lipped astir matters of idiosyncratic health. The precocious queen ne'er shared backstage aesculapian details surrounding her wellness with the public.

Since her passing, however, the royal protocol has relaxed a bit, particularly this twelvemonth arsenic King Charles III and Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, person some faced crab diagnoses and shared wellness updates with the world.

Neither the King nor the Princess person shared the circumstantial benignant of crab they were diagnosed with, speaking much mostly astir their advancement done attraction and their respective returns to royal duties.

Both Royal Family members person said, done aides, that they are sharing their experiences to rise awareness.

Buckingham Palace has not commented connected the contents of Johnson’s book.