Prince Philip was living with inoperable pancreatic cancer for almost eight years prior to his death in 2021, a new book has revealed. Shared in Queen Elizabeth II, which was serialised exclusively in the Mail on Sunday, biographer Hugo Vickers revealed that the late royal was diagnosed during a hospital stay in June 2013.
He died at the age of 99 on April 9, 2021, just two months before what would have been his 100th birthday. The cause of death was noted as “old age”.
Writing about the final night of his life, the biographer revealed that he gave nurses the slip and shuffled along a corridor at Windsor Castle on his Zimmer frame.
He then poured himself a beer before drinking it in the Oak Room, a sitting room at the residence.
He added: “The following morning, he got up, had a bath, said he did not feel well and quietly slipped away.
“By this point, he had lived with pancreatic cancer for nearly eight years – far longer than the usual survival time from diagnosis.”
The late Queen Elizabeth II, who died at the age of 96 in September 2022, was not present when her husband passed away.
It has been reported that the late Queen was upset that “as so often in life, he left without saying goodbye”.
Philip was previously hospitalised in December 2011 for a blocked coronary artery, and in 2013 was treated at the private London Clinic in Marylebone.
Doctors detected a shadow on his pancreas, and “cut him right across his stomach” for exploratory surgery. The author wrote: “The verdict was inoperable pancreatic cancer”.
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