A royal author and friend of Prince Philip has claimed that the late Queen Elizabeth II was diagnosed with a form of bone marrow cancer.
Gyles Brandreth made the statements about Her Majesty’s health struggle in his upcoming book, Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait.
In a serialisation in the Daily Mail, he 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.