Queen Elizabeth did not die of old age as the media reported at the time of her death.
According to an upcoming book written by Prince Philip’s friend, the Queen secretly battled a particularly painful form of cancer in the last year of her life.
In the book, titled Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait, author Gyles Brandreth wrote that the queen had a form of bone marrow cancer.
Brandret wrote in the biography published in the Daily Mail: “I have heard that the Queen had a form of myeloma – a cancer of the bone marrow – which explains her fatigue and weight loss and these ‘mobility problems’ we were often told during the last year or so of her life.
“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.
“There is currently no known cure, but treatment — including drugs to regulate the immune system and drugs to help prevent bone loss — can reduce the severity of symptoms and extend a patient’s survival by months or two to three years.”
The Queen died in September aged 95. Her son Charles became King of England after her death.
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