In his soon-to-be-published memoir, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson claims: queen elizabeth ii Before passing away in September 2022 at the age of 96, he was diagnosed with bone cancer. His claims represent a serious breach of royal protocol between Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. The protocol stipulates that Britain’s elected leaders generally keep private royal matters secret.
Johnson makes this claim in his memoir, Unleashed, due out in late October. Excerpts from the book, purported to detail the late queen’s health, were published in Mr Johnson’s regular column in the Daily Mail this week.
British government officials and members of the royal family have so far not released details about the late queen’s cause of death. The official death certificate issued a week after Queen Elizabeth’s death listed the cause of death as “old age.”
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“I’ve known for more than a year that she had a type of bone cancer, but doctors were concerned that she could rapidly decline at any time,” Johnson wrote in her book. It is stated in “She looked pale and more hunched over, and she had dark bruises on her hands and wrists, probably from IV fluids or injections.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the Queen appeared to be ill, but said he was still well at his last meeting with her.
“Her mind…was completely intact,” he wrote. “She still flashed that wonderful white smile in all her sudden, uplifting beauty.”
johnson who Served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022. Days before Elizabeth’s death, he met with her at his Scottish residence, Balmoral Castle, to formally announce his resignation as the country’s leader.
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Buckingham Palace declined to comment when asked by CBS News about Johnson’s claims. The palace typically does not comment on allegations about the private lives of members of the royal family in books or print publications.
Johnson’s comments break with the long-standing tradition of British prime ministers not commenting publicly on what they say in private meetings with members of the royal family, but they are not entirely unprecedented.
In 2014, then Prime Minister David Cameron apologized to Queen Elizabeth for disclosing details of private conversations with her about the outcome of a case. Referendum rejected by Scots The idea that Scotland would secede from the United Kingdom and become an independent nation.
Prime Minister David Cameron told former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg that the King seemed relieved that Scots had voted in favor of remaining in the UK, and that the late Queen was “purring her throat very hard” after the final result. I overheard him suggesting that he had done so.
Former British leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown also detailed in their books the conversations and interactions they had with Queen Elizabeth while in office.
Elizabeth’s eldest son, who became King Charles III after her death, broke with a longstanding precedent earlier this year that Buckingham Palace did not disclose information about royals’ personal health. undergoing treatment for cancerHowever, the palace has not disclosed what type of cancer he is being treated for.
A month after the monarch’s health problems were revealed, his daughter-in-law Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed her own cancer diagnosis. princess kate said in september Although she has completed treatment, the “road to healing” will be long.
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