{"id":2080966,"date":"2025-10-10T03:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2080966"},"modified":"2025-10-10T03:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:25:53","slug":"late-queen-brutally-called-boris-johnson-an-idiot-just-days-before-her-death-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/late-queen-brutally-called-boris-johnson-an-idiot-just-days-before-her-death-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Queen brutally called Boris Johnson &#8216;an idiot&#8217; just days before her death | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After accepting his resignation, the book claims that the late Queen added that Boris was &#8220;perhaps better suited to the stage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">The author also notes the <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/1857559\/queen-elizabeth-death-balmoral\">final few days of her life<\/a> had been &#8220;happy ones&#8221;. Shared in his book, he added: &#8220;She had enjoyed a gathering of her family and treasured staff two evenings before her death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The courtier confided that when <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/boris-johnson\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Boris Johnson<\/a> was mentioned, the Queen, mischief in her eye, had said: \u2018Well at least I won\u2019t have that idiot organising my funeral now.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This, it seems, was said to amuse but it was a widely shared sentiment in the royal household.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Speaking on an episode of Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth podcast last year, the former Prime Minister discussed the final meeting that he had with the late monarch.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled how she remained in &#8220;wonderful, sparking&#8221; form despite reportedly suffering from a form of bone marrow cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Brandreth, who was a close friend of the late Queen and her husband Prince Philip, revealed he had heard that the she had a form of myeloma in his biography, Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait, which was published three months after her death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After accepting his resignation, the book claims that the late Queen added that Boris was &#8220;perhaps better suited to the stage&#8221;. The author also notes the final few days of her life had been &#8220;happy ones&#8221;. Shared in his book, he added: &#8220;She had enjoyed a gathering of her family and treasured staff two evenings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2080967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[359784,391196,24085,22769],"class_list":["post-2080966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-boris-johnson","tag-queen-elizabeth-boris-johnson","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Late-Queen-brutally-called-Boris-Johnson-an-idiot-just-days.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080968,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080966\/revisions\/2080968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2080967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}