Published:
1 oct 2024 01:54 GMT
Boris Johnson claims in his memoirs that the monarch, during his last meeting with her, was physically affected by the disease.
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom would have suffered from “a form of bone cancer” during the last years of her life, as revealed for the first time by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a preview of his memoir.
In an excerpt from the book, titled ‘Unleashed’ and published In the Daily Mail last week, Johnson, 60, reflects on his last meeting with the queen, which took place at Balmoral Castle in September 2022, two days before she died.
“Edward Young, his private secretary, tried to prepare me,” Johnson wrote. “He had known for a year or more that he had a type of bone cancer, and his doctors were worried that at any moment he could go into a sharp decline,” he adds.
“‘It’s gone down quite a bit over the summer,’ he said. [Young]. And then the assistant knocked on the door and ushered me into His Majesty’s salon,” he indicated. “[La reina] “she seemed pale and more hunched over, and had dark bruises on her hands and wrists, probably from drips or injections,” she said, while noting that her mind “was completely intact.”
Elizabeth died at the age of 96, becoming the longest-lived monarch of the United Kingdom. His death was officially attributed to “natural causes.” So far, Buckingham Palace has not commented on the claims that the former prime minister makes in his memoirs, which will be formally published on October 10.
