Queen Elizabeth II had bone cancer, former U.K. PM Boris Johnson claims
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In an excerpt from his new book, former U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson writes that the Queen had been diagnosed with cancer in her final years.
The late Queen Elizabeth II had a form of bone cancer in her final years, former U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson has controversially claimed in his memoir.
In an extract from Unleashed, due out later this month and serialized by the Daily Mail, Johnson broke royal protocol and shared that the monarch was suffering from bone cancer before she died in 2022.
He wrote that two days before the Queen’s Sept. 8, 2022, death, he travelled to Balmoral Castle in Scotland to formally resign from his post, as is customary. The Queen appointed Liz Truss to be the U.K.’s new prime minister.
Her official cause of death was recorded as “old age” but Johnson said she had bone cancer and knew “all summer that she was going.”
“Edward Young, her private secretary, tried to prepare me,” Johnson wrote. “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.
“‘She’s gone down quite a bit over the summer,’ he said. And then the footman knocked and showed me into Her Majesty’s drawing room.”
Johnson wrote that during their final visit, the Queen appeared “pale and more stooped, and she had dark bruising on her hands and wrists, probably from drips or injections.”
