He said: 'I don't think anybody knows what it was. 'Currently, there is no known cure, but treatment-including medicines to help regulate the immune system and drugs that help prevent the weakening of the bones-can reduce the severity of its symptoms and extend the patient's survival by months or two to three years,' he said.ĭickie Arbiter, Elizabeth's spokesman between 19, told Newsweek the information was 'secondhand.' 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. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images/Karwai Tang/WireImageīrandreth wrote: 'I had heard that the Queen had a form of myeloma-bone marrow cancer. Gyles Brandreth (inset) says he heard that she had cancer in the year before her death in his new biography of the queen. This is a powerful, revealing and, ultimately, moving account of a long life and a remarkable royal partnership.Queen Elizabeth II attends an Armed Forces Act of Loyalty Parade in the gardens of the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 28. Philip: The Final Portrait tells the story of two contrasting lives, assesses the Duke of Edinburgh's character and achievement, and explores the nature of his relationships with his wife, his children and their families - and with the press and public and those at court who were suspicious of him in the early days. They married in 1947, aged twenty-one and twenty-six. Elizabeth and Philip met as cousins in the 1930s. The Queen's childhood was loving and secure, the Duke's was turbulent his grandfather assassinated, his father arrested, his family exiled, his parents separated when he was only ten.

Philip and Elizabeth were both royal by birth, both great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria, but, in temperament and upbringing, they were two very different people.

It is also the portrait of a remarkable marriage that endured for more than seventy years. Who was he? What was he really like? What is the truth about those 'gaffes' and the rumours of affairs? This is the final portrait of an unexpected and often much-misunderstood figure. Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible - is the man Elizabeth II once described as her 'constant strength and guide'. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history.

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