Boris Johnson Reveals Queen Elizabeth's Shocking Previously Unknown Diagnosis & Decline Days Before Her Death In New Memoir

Queen Elizabeth II was suffering far more than anyone realized in her final months before passing away in early September of 2022.

That’s according to a forthcoming memoir by former United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson, at least. The memoir, entitled Unleashed, will be released in the UK on October 10. But excerpts of the book are floating around, and at least one small section is causing major shock among royal family watchers and supporters.

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In the memoir, Johnson reflects on serving out his final days as the nation’s Prime Minister. He wound up resigning the position on September 6, 2022 — which was just two days before the Queen died, as chance would have it. But in those final days for both of them — Johnson’s career and the Queen’s long life — he went up to Balmoral Castle in Scotland to meet with her. It is the writing about that meeting which has been pulled in excerpt by DailyMail.com this week to reveal a stunning piece of news: the Queen had been allegedly diagnosed with bone cancer in her final years.

As you may recall, this bone cancer claim is something we’ve heard before — WAY back in November of 2022, just a couple months after the Queen’s passing. That report was never corroborated at the time, though, and it fizzled out of memory nearly as quickly as it was reported. But now, Johnson’s memoir would appear to give new confirmation to that shocking reveal.

Writing candidly about that, Johnson explained how he went up to Scotland for the visit and first came across the Queen’s private secretary Edward Young, who was distraught:

“I tried a few jolly remarks with the courtiers, about the kind of advice I might give to Her ­Majesty, about who she might really send for to be PM; that kind of thing. They smiled. But they looked tired. Edward Young, her private secretary, tried to prepare me.”

From there, Johnson dropped the bone cancer bomb. He wrote that the Queen had been on “a sharp decline” in the final few months of her life:

“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. ‘She’s gone down quite a bit over the summer,’ he said. And then the footman knocked and showed me into Her Majesty’s drawing room.”

Wow.

He also wrote some about the physical evidence of her harrowing medical ordeal:

“‘Good morning, Prime Minister,’ she said, and as we sat down ­opposite one another on the greeny-blue sofas I could see at once what Edward meant. She seemed pale and more stooped, and she had dark ­bruising on her hands and wrists, probably from drips or injections. But her mind — as Edward had also said — was completely ­unimpaired by her illness, and from time to time in our conversation she still flashed that great white smile in its sudden mood-lifting beauty.”

And he went on with praise for her, and how meeting with her was consistently “a form of psychotherapy” amid his own very difficult career fumbles and strains:

To go to see the Queen, for an hour a week, and to pour out your heart was more than a privilege. It was a balm, a form of free psychotherapy. It was like being at school and being taken out to tea by a much-loved grandmother. I felt there was nothing I could not tell her, and her genius — as I gave her my descriptions of ­government infighting or foreign chicanery — was to sound both understanding and sympathetic, and then, at just the right moment, to give the tiniest nudge of advice. Whatever crisis you laid before her — like one of her dogs finding something revolting on the moor and putting it on the carpet — she had seen worse.”

In the end, he noted how the regal old woman was determined to carry out one final duty in her life before departing:

“As Edward Young explained to me later, she had known all ­summer that she was going, but was determined to hang on and do her last duty: to oversee the peaceful and orderly transition from one government to the next — and, I expect, to add another departing PM to her record-breaking tally.”

And of course, sadly, she died just a few days later. So heartbreaking. But also so inspiring, in a major way. She hung on for so long and was so tough and proper while doing it!! Reactions to this shocking and unexpected bone cancer reveal, y’all? The Firm is probably not too pleased with this personal info being shared!

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