Queen Elizabeth II had a ‘very peaceful death,’ did she have cancer and when did she die?

Queen Elizabeth II was 96 when she passed away at Balmoral Castle on 8 September 2022. Details have now emerged of the late monarch’s final moments. The Daily Mail has reported that Sir Edward Young, the late Queen’s private secretary “recorded the sequence of events in an internal memo for posterity. It is now lodged in the Royal Archives.

“It reads: ‘Dougie (Glass) in at 3.25. Very peaceful. In her sleep. Slipped away. Old age. Death has to be registered in Scotland. Agree 3.10pm. She wouldn’t have been aware of anything. No pain.”

Sir Edward’s note is featured in Robert Hardman’s new biography of King Charles, which is entitled Charles III New King. New Court. The Inside Story. Among other details that have emerged from the book is that King Charles, the then Prince of Wales who “had gone out to gather mushrooms and clear his head after seeing his mother, received the news that she had died as he was driving back to Balmoral when his senior aide took a call.”

When Queen Elizabeth II’s health took a turn for the worse on September 7 2022, the day before she died, the Princess of Royal was at the time in Scotland. She said “It was purely serendipity that I was there.” She went on to say “I’d been two days up on the West Coast and I was coming back, stayed the night, and was going south.”

Did Queen Elizabeth II have cancer?

Although Queen Elizabeth II’s official death certificate said that she died of ‘old age,’ Gyles Brandreth, a friend of the late Queen and Prince Philip, recalled in his book, ‘Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait,’ that “I had heard the Queen had a form of myeloma-bone marrow cancer…. 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.”