Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has controversially broken royal protocol and claimed in his upcoming memoir that Queen Elizabeth II was suffering from bone cancer before her death. <\/p>\n
In the book, which hits shelves <\/em>on October 10 and has been serialized this week in the Daily Mail newspaper – which Johnson also writes for – he recalled the monarch\u2019s final days at Balmoral, Scotland. <\/p>\n Johnson formally stepped down just two days before Elizabeth II\u2019s death in September 2022, and in the years since, there has been fierce speculation over exactly how she passed away. <\/p>\n \u201cI 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,\u201d he wrote in the excerpt. <\/p>\n Johnson\u2019s account is the first public indication by a former senior government official as to what the Queen\u2019s cause of death might have been. It is listed as \u201cold age\u201d on her death certificate. <\/p>\n Johnson isn\u2019t the first prime minister to reminisce about his life, time in office and interactions with the late Queen in an autobiography. Former British leaders Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron all did so but only in generalities and without the same level of vivid detail as Johnson. <\/p>\n Buckingham Palace has a policy not to comment on books released about the royal family and as such has not confirmed or denied Johnson\u2019s assertions. <\/p>\n Johnson, who served as prime minister between 2019 and 2022, recalls traveling to the royal residence of Balmoral for the customary outgoing audience and resignation. Upon his arrival, he remembers being greeted by the Queen\u2019s private secretary Edward Young, who suggested to him that she had deteriorated significantly over the summer. <\/p>\n Thinking back on that last time the pair sat together in the Queen\u2019s drawing room, Johnson said that he understood Young\u2019s forewarning. <\/p>\n \u201cShe seemed pale and more stooped, and she had dark bruising on her hands and wrists, probably from drips or injections,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n \u201cBut her mind \u2013 as Edward had also said \u2013 was completely \u00adunimpaired by her illness, and from time to time in our conversation she still flashed that great white smile in its sudden mood-lifting beauty.\u201d <\/p>\n Johnson described the weekly prime minster audiences with the monarch as \u201ca privilege\u201d and \u201ca balm.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cShe radiated such an ethic of \u00adservice, patience and leadership that you really felt you would, if necessary, die for her,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat may sound barmy to some people (and totally obvious to many more), but that loyalty, primitive as it may appear, is still at the heart of our system. <\/p>\n \u201cYou need someone kind and wise, and above politics, to personify what is good about our country. She did that job brilliantly.\u201d <\/p>\n The late Queen never shared private medical details with the public. Aides within the royal household still maintain that family members have the same right to medical privacy as anyone else. <\/p>\n King Charles III and Catherine, Princess of Wales have bucked the trend and been more open about their health. The two have shared details about their own cancer diagnoses and recoveries. <\/p>\n However, in both instances, they chose not to divulge the specific form of cancer each has been battling. When pressed, aides said they wanted to share their experiences to raise awareness of the disease. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has controversially broken royal protocol and claimed in his upcoming memoir that Queen Elizabeth II was suffering from bone cancer before her death. 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