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.

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.

“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.

“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.

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.

LONDON — The late Queen Elizabeth II had a form of bone cancer in her final years, Boris Johnson claimed in his memoir.

Queen Elizabeth had a form of bone cancer, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declared in a new memoir, claiming he knew for “a year or more” before her death.

"Her doctors were worried that at any time she could enter a sharp decline," the former prime minister writes about the late Queen in his memoir 'Unleashed'