the queen Elizabeth II of England was dying bone cancerillness he kept secret, claims former British PM Boris Johnson (60) in his memoirs, of which the British media published extracts.
Elizabeth II was 96 years old and the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom when she died on September 8, 2022 at Balmoral, her castle in Scotland.
According to your official death certificateElizabeth II died of “natural causes“, but Johnson writes in his memoirs, entitled Unchained and which will be published soon, that the monarch had bone cancer And He was aware that his time was about to end..
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Elizabeth II of England in a photograph taken in London, 2022.
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In an extract from his memoirs, published in media such as Sunday mailBoris remembers the last time he saw her alive when he officially resigned, two days before his death.
“Édouard Younghis private secretary, tried to prepare me,” Johnson wrote.I had known for a year or more that I had bone cancer.and his doctors feared that at any moment he could experience a sudden decline,” says the former Prime Minister, according to extracts also published by the magazine. News week.
“‘The situation worsened over the summer.‘, said. And then the secretary knocked on the door and ushered me into Her Majesty’s salon,” the politician continues in his story. “‘Hello, Prime Minister,’ said the monarch, and when we sitting opposite each other on the blue-green sofas, I immediately understood what Edward meant.”
“She seemed pale and more stoopedand there were dark bruises on his hands and wrists, probably from drops or injections“.
Elizabeth II in an archive photograph.
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“But his mind, as Edward had also said, was completely intact because of his illness and from time to time in our conversation, he still showed that big white smile with his sudden good looks that lifted our spirits,” continued the British politician.
“As Edward Young later explained to meJohnson recalled, “she knew all about (her illness) the summer she was going to die, but she was determined to endure and fulfill her final duty: oversee the peaceful and orderly transition from one government to anotherand I’ve been waiting to add another outgoing Prime Minister to his list of achievements.”
The Conservative Party politician is not the first to publicly declare that the Queen has cancer. The royal historian Gyles Brandreth He told it in a book, the magazine remembers News week.
Elizabeth II’s death came just two days after she held an audience at Balmoral with the then British Prime Minister, Liz Truss (49), which was preceded by another in which Boris Johnson informed him of his resignation.
