Natalie Barr has slammed former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for revealing that the late Queen Elizabeth II had bone cancer.
The former prime minister, 60, said in his upcoming memoir Unleashed that he was aware of the monarch’s condition for over a year before her death in 2022.
Sunrise host Barr was angry that Mr Johnson broke protocol by revealing the Queen’s private medical matters.
‘Dog act, Boris,’ the breakfast show host said as she discussed Mr Johnson’s current publicity tour ahead of his book release.
‘If the royal family or the Queen had wanted to release that [information], they would have. They would all have known. So, to sell a book, I think that’s appalling.’
Co-host Matt ‘Shirvo’ Shirvington agreed, saying: ‘To break the Queen’s confidence in that way …. just horrible.’
The late queen’s cause of death was officially recorded as ‘old age’ but it was reported soon after her death that she had died from myeloma – a form of bone marrow cancer.
Gyles Brandreth, a former politician and close friend of the Queen’s husband Prince Phillip, revealed the cause of death just two months after she passed.
Natalie Barr, 56, (pictured) unleashed a brutal two-word takedown against UK politician Boris Johnson, 60, after he claimed Queen Elizabeth II suffered from deadly bone cancer
In his memoir, Mr Johnson recalled his final meeting with the monarch.
‘I had known for a year or more that she had a form of bone cancer, and her doctors were worried that at any time she could enter a sharp decline,’ he wrote in his memoir, part of which was published in The Mail on Sunday.
‘She seemed pale and more stooped, and she had dark bruising on her hands and wrists, probably from drips or injections.’
However, despite her condition, the former PM recalled how sharp her mind remained in that final meeting.
The late Queen died at the age of 96 on September 8, 2022, at 3.10pm.
The former prime minister (pictured) said in his upcoming tell-all memoir Unleashed that he was aware of the monarch’s condition for over a year before her death in 2022
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According to the NHS, Bone cancer is considered rare; accounting for less than 1 per cent of all cancer diagnosed each year, with only some 600 cases.
Age is considered the biggest risk factor for the disease with people in their late 80s most likely to be diagnosed.
Bone cancer is severe and only about 50 per cent of patients are expected to live five years after their diagnosis.
Mr Brandreth, in his biography Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait, revealed the late monarch had a type of bone marrow cancer.
Now Sunrise host Nat has slammed Mr Johnson on live TV on Tuesday morning for the ‘dog act’ of revealing the Queen’s (pictured) alleged secret medical concerns
He wrote: ‘I had heard that the Queen had a form of myeloma—bone marrow cancer—which would explain her tiredness and weight loss and those “mobility issues” we were often told about during the last year or so of her life.’
‘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.
‘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.’
While ‘old age’ can be listed as contributing to a death, official guidelines state it should only be used as sole cause of death in very limited circumstances.
It comes just a few days after Mr Johnson claimed that Queen Elizabeth II suffered from a form of deadly bone cancer before her death in September 2022
There is no official age limit for saying someone died of ‘old age’, but it is generally only accepted if the person is over 80.
The doctor should also have cared for the deceased for years or months and noticed a general decline in their health, as well as their functioning in day-to-day life.
There must also be no obvious identifiable disease or injury that contributed to their death, though ‘old age’ can be listed as a contributing factor.
The final official condition for using ‘old age’ as the cause of death is that the doctor is ‘certain’ there is no reason that the death should be reported to the coroner for further investigation.