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Queen Elizabeth II Death: A new biography of Queen Elizabeth II claims that the late British monarch was suffering from a rare form of “bone marrow cancer”. The upcoming biography titled “Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait” is written by Gyles Brandreth, a friend of the late Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the husband of Queen Elizabeth II who died on April 9, 2021. The biography also claims that the Queen suffered periods of “low energy”. The 96-year-old, who was Britain’s longest-ruling monarch, died at the Balmoral Castle in Scotland on September 8, 2022, after being dogged by ill health for the past few years.
However, according to the official records, the official cause of Queen Elizabeth II’s death is listed as “old age” whereas Gyles Brandreth’s book is making a different claim altogether.
“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,” said Gyles Brandreth.
“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. Currently, there is no known cure, but treatment, including medicines to help regulate the immune system and drugs that help prevent the weakening of the bones can reduce the severity of its symptoms and extend the patient’s survival by months or two to three years,” claims the book.
Multiple myeloma is defined as “a cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell called a plasma cell. Healthy plasma cells help you fight infections by making antibodies that recognize and attack germs. In multiple myeloma, cancerous plasma cells accumulate in the bone marrow and crowd out healthy blood cells,” by mayoclinic.org.
