Johnson, who met with the queen at Balmoral Castle just a few days before her death on Sept. 8, 2022, writes in his memoir, titled "Unleashed," about the queen's appearance in their final meeting. "She seemed pale and more stooped,

Queen Elizabeth II was battling bone cancer before her death, according to a new book. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson describes, in his new memoir, “ Unleashed ,” his final meeting with the late monarch, who passed away on September 8, 2022, at 96.

In his book, “Unleashed,” Johnson writes that he was aware “for more than a year that she had a form of bone cancer and her doctors were worried that at any time she could enter a sharp decline.”

​​Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the late Queen Elizabeth II had a form of bone cancer in her final years. Johnson’s new memoir, Unleashed, will hit booksellers’ shelves in October. But an excerpt teased this week offered a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse into the queen’s cause of death.

“I had known for a year or more that she had a form of bone cancer, and her doctors were worried that at any time she could enter a sharp decline,” Johnson wrote of his last meeting with the Queen at Balmoral on September 6 when he formally tendered his resignation.

Johnson met with the late monarch two days before her death to resign from his position as the UK's Prime Minister. He detailed the meeting in his new book, "Unleashed."

Boris Johnson's decision to reveal the late monarch's diagnosis is likely to raise eyebrows at Buckingham Palace.

"Her doctors were worried that at any time she could enter a sharp decline," the former prime minister writes about the late Queen in his memoir 'Unleashed'

Tory leader reveals in his upcoming book that he was told that the Queen's health had "gone down quite a bit over the summer"

Queen Elizabeth II battled bone cancer before she passed away two years ago, according to former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In his new book titled "Unleashed," which is scheduled for release next week,