The former British Prime Minister claims that Queen Elizabeth II was suffering from a SERIOUS ILLNESS

The former British Prime Minister claims that Queen Elizabeth II was suffering from a SERIOUS ILLNESS

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson claims in his soon-to-be-published memoir that Queen Elizabeth II was diagnosed with bone cancer before her death in September 2022, aged 96.

The claim is a significant breach of royal protocol between the Prime Minister’s Office and Buckingham Palace, under which Britain’s elected leaders generally keep the royal family’s private matters to themselves.

Johnson makes this claim in his forthcoming memoir, Unleashed, which is scheduled to be published at the end of October. An excerpt from the book, purportedly detailing the late Queen’s health, was published this week in Johnson’s regular column for the Daily Mail newspaper.

No senior British official or member of the royal family has previously revealed details about the cause of the Queen’s death. The official death certificate published a week after her death listed “old age” as the cause of death.

“I had known for a year or more that she had a form of bone cancer, and her doctors were concerned that at any moment the disease might suddenly worsen,” Johnson says in his book. “She looked pale and more hunched over, and had dark bruises on her hands and wrists, possibly from IVs or injections.”

Although he said the Queen appeared ill, Johnson said she was still composed during their last meeting.

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“Her mind … was completely intact,” it says. “She still flashed that big white smile, which suddenly lifted the spirits with its beauty.”

The last meeting between Johnson and the Queen

Johnson, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022, met with Elizabeth a few days before her death at her Scottish residence, Balmoral Castle, to formally submit his resignation as head of state.

Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the claims. This is to be expected as he usually does not comment on claims about the private lives of members of the royal family from books or the press.

While Johnson’s comments break a long-standing tradition of UK prime ministers not speaking publicly about what is said during private meetings with members of the royal family, it is not entirely unprecedented.

In 2014, then-Prime Minister David Cameron apologized to Queen Elizabeth for revealing details of a private conversation with her about the results of the referendum, in which Scots rejected the idea of ​​Scotland seceding from the United Kingdom and forming an independent state.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (AP Photo/Rebecca Naden/Pool, File)

Former British leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown also provided some details about conversations and interactions with Queen Elizabeth in their books about the period spent in office, writes CBS.

Queen Elizabeth’s first son, who became King Charles III after her death, broke a long-standing precedent of not disclosing private health information about members of the royal family earlier this year, when Buckingham Palace revealed he was being treated for cancer, although the palace did not disclose what type of cancer is a word.

A month after the monarch’s health problems were announced, his sister-in-law Kate, Princess of Wales, revealed her cancer diagnosis. Princess Kate said in September that she had completed her treatment but that her “road to recovery” would be long.

Source: BIZLife

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