Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed the late Queen Elizabeth II had bone cancer in her later years. In a chapter from his upcoming memoir Unleashed , Johnson recalls his final meeting with the monarch at Balmoral on September 6, 2022 , two days before her death, claiming staffers tried to warn him her condition had deteriorated. “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,” he writes in an extract published by the Daily Mail UK .
He described her as pale and “stooped” with noticeable bruising on her hands, “probably from drips or injections”, adding the Queen still smiled throughout their conversation..
