Queen Elizabeth’s four-word reaction after being told she was going to die

Royal reporter Robert Jobson also touched on the subject in his book Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen. According to him, Queen Elizabeth was “terribly frail” near the end of her life as she battled myeloma, a kind of bone marrow cancer.

After her Platinum Jubily in June 2022, celebrating her 70th year on the throne, Jobson wrote that her health “deteriorated rapidly.”

“She struggled terribly with her eyesight and had low vision,” Jobson reported. “She even had difficulty lifting a full teapot to pour into her cup.”

“She would get terribly frustrated as she hated causing a mess, pouring it over the tray,” a source added. “She asked for a smaller pot and would get frustrated when the staff forgot and brought the big one.”

Now, former royal butler Paul Burrell has shared more details on Queen Elizabeth’s health and how she took the news. He worked as a butler for the Windsors for a long time, and said doctors had at first given a very sad prognosis. They said she probably wouldn’t survive beyond Christmas, 2021 – but Queen Elizabeth had other ideas.

The butler revealed that she reacted with four, brave, words: “Well that’s a shame,” the Mirror reported. Even so, Burrell said the queen was shocked that her life was coming to an end so quickly.