Queen Elizabeth II was battling bone cancer before her death, according to a new book. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson describes, in his new memoir, “ Unleashed ,” his final meeting with the late monarch, who passed away on September 8, 2022, at 96.

​​Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the late Queen Elizabeth II had a form of bone cancer in her final years. Johnson’s new memoir, Unleashed, will hit booksellers’ shelves in October. But an excerpt teased this week offered a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse into the queen’s cause of death.

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“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,” Johnson wrote of his last meeting with the Queen at Balmoral on September 6 when he formally tendered his resignation.

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed that Queen Elizabeth, who passed away at the age of 96 in September 2022, had been battling bone cancer. Johnson, 60, had met with the monarch at her beloved Balmoral Castle in Scotland just two days before her passing.

Boris Johnson's decision to reveal the late monarch's diagnosis is likely to raise eyebrows at Buckingham Palace.

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed that Queen Elizabeth II was diagnosed with bone cancer before her death.

Britons are eagerly awaiting the release of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's autobiography. The politician has included an extensive section about Queen Elizabeth's illness, which he says she struggled with in the final years of her life.