Queen Elizabeth II battled ‘a form of bone cancer’ before her death: book

Queen Elizabeth II was battling bone cancer before her death, according to a new book. 

Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson detailed in his memoir, “Unleashed,” his final meeting with the late monarch, who passed away on September 8, 2022, at 96.

In an excerpt obtained by Daily Mail and published on Sept. 28, 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.” 

The ex-London leader claimed that the Queen’s private secretary, Sir Edward Young, said, “She’s gone down quite a bit over the summer,” before Johnson entered his outgoing audience as prime minister with her. 

“Unleashed” hits shelves in the U.K. on Oct. 10 and will be released in the U.S. on Oct. 22.  

Boris is not the first to discuss the Queen’s alleged cancer battle.

Royal reporter Robert Jobson disclosed details in his book, “Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen,” that Elizabeth II felt “terribly frail” owing to a battle with a type of bone marrow cancer known as myeloma.

Elizabeth II’s health “deteriorated rapidly” in the three months after her June 2022 Platinum Jubilee celebrations, which marked her 70 years on the throne. 

“She struggled terribly with her eyesight and had low vision,” Jobson was told. “She even had difficulty lifting a full teapot to pour into her cup.” 

A source close to the late Queen said, “Her Majesty could hardly see and just didn’t have the strength.”

“She would get terribly frustrated as she hated causing a mess, pouring it over the tray,” the source added. “She asked for a smaller pot and would get frustrated when the staff forgot and brought the big one.”

Before the jubilee, the late monarch’s strength had already been waning. And even though, according to Jobson, her doctors advised her to rest, she was determined as Head of the Nation to “put her people first” and “not to disappoint them” during the festivities. 

King Charles, then Prince Charles, also allegedly persuaded the Queen, “for the sake of history,” to appear on the famous Buckingham Palace balcony at the finale of the jubilee to acknowledge the crowds who had turned out.

“The final appearance took real courage,” Jobson wrote, given that she was in “constant pain” because of her alleged cancer battle. It was the last time she would be seen on that balcony upon which so many moments in Royal Family history had been cemented. 

“Queen Elizabeth knew she was dying,” Jobson wrote, adding her disease depleted her energy and caused her to lose a dramatic amount of weight in her final years.

Her Majesty passed away in Scotland at her beloved Balmoral Castle. She “wouldn’t have been aware of anything” and suffered “no pain,” her private secretary reportedly said in a memo afterward. 

Princess Anne, also known as The Princess Royal, was at her mother’s bedside when she passed. King Charles had been with her earlier in the day but reportedly went out to pick mushrooms at his nearby Scottish residence Birkhall “to clear his head.”

Charles was driving back to Balmoral when he got the call. Upon picking up the line, he was addressed as “Your Majesty,” and pulled off the road, knowing from those two words that his mother had died.