Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died of pancreatic cancer from which he suffered for eight years, biographer Hugo Vickers revealed in a work titled “Queen Elizabeth II”.
In 2013, doctors diagnosed Philip with inoperable pancreatic cancer. The prince survived eight years, “much longer than the usual survival time after diagnosis,” says the biographer.
Hugo Vickers tells the story of the last hours of the prince, and his death, in the absence of the queen, two months before his 100th birthday, News writes.
“On the last night of his life, Prince Philip took a few steps down a castle corridor before pouring himself a beer and drinking it in the Oak Room,” reveals the biographer, who adds: “The next morning, he woke up, took a bath, said he didn’t feel well and died quietly.”
The Queen was devastated that she was not there at the time of the death of the man who had been by her side for 73 years. The one she called her “rock”. She would have been upset by the fact that, “as often in life, she left without saying goodbye.”
Prince Philip died on April 9, 2021 at Windsor Castle. In the last years of his life he was hospitalized several times. In 2011 for a blocked artery, then in 2013 when he was diagnosed with cancer, then in 2017 when he decided to retire, and finally in March 2021, shortly before his death.
As for the queen, who officially died as well “old age”she suffered from bone marrow cancer, it was later learned due to the indiscretions of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
