Queen Elizabeth II Had Bone Cancer, New Book Claims
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In the months before Queen Elizabeth II died, Buckingham Palace said virtually nothing about her health challenges other than that she was suffering from “mobility issues.” Her death certificate said that she died only of “old age” aged 96. However, a new tell-all memoir by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed that the late Queen was suffering from bone cancer for around a year before her death.
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Unleashed by Boris Johnson is being serialized in the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday ahead of its release in October. It has created waves in the U.K with revelations about politics and the royal family. The suggestion that Queen Elizabeth had a form of bone cancer has been written before but, as Prime Minister at the time, Johnson’s claims give the information a new level of authority.
“I had known for a year or more that she had a form of bone cancer, and her doctors were worried that at any time she could enter a sharp decline,” Johnson wrote of his last meeting with the Queen at Balmoral on September 6 when he formally tendered his resignation.
He went on the describe the encounter, which took place two days before the Queen's death, saying that he was told before entering that she had gone downhill over the summer. “She seemed pale and more stooped,” Johnson’s extract in the Mail on Sunday read. “But her mind…was completely unimpaired by her illness.”
The late Queen is not the only royal on the receiving end of Johnson’s indiscretion in his memoir. He also wrote that he was tasked with talking Prince Harry out of leaving the UK in 2020, an encounter he described as “totally hopeless.”
Buckingham Palace has declined to comment on any of the claims in the book.
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