the queen Elizabeth II of England it was dying of bone cancer, a disease that he kept secret, says the ex British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his memoirs, from which the British media are publishing excerpts.
Elizabeth II was 96 years old and was the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom when died on September 8, 2022 at Balmoral, his castle in Scotland.
According to her official death certificate, Elizabeth II died of “natural causes” But Johnson wrote in his memoirs, titled “Unleashed” and which will be published soon, that the monarch had bone cancer and was aware that her time was about to end.
In an excerpt from his memoirs, published in media such as The Mail on Sundaydescribed the last time he saw her alive when he formally resigned, two days before her death.
“Edward Young, his private secretary, tried to prepare me,” Johnson wrote.
“He had known for a year or more that he had bone cancer, and his doctors were worried that at any moment he could go into a sharp decline,” says the former prime minister, according to extracts also published by the magazine. “Newsweek.”
“It’s gotten a lot worse over the summer.”said. And then the secretary knocked on the door and showed me into His Majesty’s living room,” the politician continues in his story.
“‘Good morning, Prime Minister,’ said the monarch, and as we sat opposite each other on the teal sofas, I could immediately understand what Edward meant.”
“She appeared pale and more hunched over, and had dark bruises on her hands and wrists, probably from drips or injections.”
“But his mind, as Edward had also said, was completely untouched by his illness and from time to time in our conversation he still showed that big white smile with its sudden beauty that lifted the spirits,” the British politician continued.
“As Edward Young later explained to me,” Johnson wrote, “she knew everything (about her illness) the summer she was going to die, but she was determined to endure and fulfill her last duty: to oversee the peaceful and orderly transition from one government to the next, and, she waited to add another outgoing prime minister to her record.” .
The politician of Conservative Party is not the first person to publicly declare that the queen had cancer. The royal historian Gyles Brandreth He told it in a book, recalls Newsweek magazine.
The death of Elizabeth II It came just two days later. having held an audience at Balmoral with the then British Prime Minister, Liz Trusswhich was preceded by another in which Boris Johnson informed him that he was resigning.
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