Isabel II He passed away on September 8 at the age of 96 at his Balmoral Castle. According to a statement from the British royal family, his death was due to “old age”. However, this Saturday it has emerged that the real reason was cancer.
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That’s how he tells it Gyles Branretha close friend of Prince Philip, in his book Elizabeth: Intimate Portrait: “I had heard that the Queen had a form of myeloma, bone marrow cancer, which would explain her tiredness and weight loss and those ‘mobility issues’ that often worried us.”
“The most common symptom of myeloma is bone pain, especially in the pelvis and lower back, and multiple myeloma is a disease that often affects the elderly,” he adds. However, her Majesty would have accepted her reality “with pleasure”, even though she knew that her time was limited.
The biographer also recounts how the death of her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, affected the queen in 2021. Charles III he was of the opinion that “keeping busy helps” until in the fall of last year he felt “an energy drop” and his doctors advised him to reduce his commitments.
One of the most difficult moments of his last years was having to “fire” the prince andrew for his link to the Epstein case. According to the book, after her son told him her version of this case, Elizabeth II told him the following word: “Interesting.” According to Brandreth, the queen continued to trust her Andrew, but she was forceful in deciding that she should abandon her public duties.
