“I walked into the hall and [Princess Anne] was there to greet me,” Harry recalled. “And she asked me if I wanted to see her. I thought about it for about five seconds, thinking, ‘Is this a good idea?’ And I was, like, ‘You know what? You can do this. You need to say goodbye.’ So went upstairs, took my jacket off and walked in and just spent some time with her alone.”

In his memoir, he described his final moments with his grandmother, saying he whispered a heartfelt message:

“I hoped she was happy and that she was with grandpa,” he wrote.

Rumors of Bone Cancer & The Queen’s Final Challenges

While the official cause of death was listed as old age, royal biographer Gyles Brandreth previously suggested that the Queen had been suffering from myeloma, a form of bone marrow cancer. This could explain her reported fatigue, weight loss, and mobility difficulties in her final year.

“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,” Brandreth wrote in a Daily Mail serialization.

Towards the end, the Queen was rarely seen in public, reportedly due to increasing pain and difficulty moving. While she was never photographed in a wheelchair, sources claim she used one privately. Royal expert Robert Jobson revealed that for her Platinum Jubilee, extraordinary efforts were made to ensure she was not seen in a wheelchair.

“At the Palace, she was wheeled right up to the balcony doors, then helped to her feet so that she could stand – with the aid of a walking stick – alongside Charles and Camilla, plus William and his family,” Jobson wrote.

A close friend of the Queen told The Daily Beast that her final months were especially difficult.

“For the last years of her life, certainly from when her husband died, the Queen was in a lot of pain,” the source shared. “By the time of the Platinum Jubilee, she couldn’t see very much, she couldn’t hear very much, and she was easily confused.”

Despite these struggles, she carried out her duties until the very end, including appointing Liz Truss as Prime Minister just days before her passing.

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