The Queen "was battling cancer" in the months leading up to her death, a new book has said.
The revelation was made by Prince Philip's pal Gyles Brandreth who made the claims about the former Monarch, who passed away in September, in an upcoming biography called Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait.
The Queen's official cause of death was listed as "old age", but Brandreth claimed it was actually a rare form of bone marrow cancer that took the 96-year-old's life.
