An author has claimed The Queen 'was battling cancer' in the months before her death. Gyles Brandreth, who was a friend of Prince Philip, alleges the late Monarch was suffering from a rare form of bone marrow cancer in an upcoming biography called Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait.
Brandreth alleged that the Queen eventually passed away from the incurable disease, despite Her Majesty's official cause of death being listed as "old age", the Mirror reports.
The former MP wrote: "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’ we were often told about during the last year or so of her life.
