Queen Elizabeth II was battling cancer before she died, claims new book

A new biography of the late Queen Elizabeth II claims she was suffering from bone cancer before she died, Report informs via Insider

Official records say the longest-reigning monarch in British history died from old age at 96, but Gyles Brandreth, writing in Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait, said she had a form of bone marrow cancer called multiple myeloma in the last period of her life.

An extract of the biography published in the Daily Mail explores how Brandeth, reportedly a close friend of Prince Phillip, said he had heard Queen Elizabeth II had myeloma, "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."