Overview
- Royal historian Hugo Vickers sets out the claim in a new biography, with newspaper extracts published Sunday by the Mail on Sunday and Daily Mail prompting fresh coverage.
- He writes that doctors at the London Clinic found a shadow on the pancreas in June 2013 and, after exploratory surgery, judged the tumor inoperable.
- An almost eight-year span after an inoperable pancreatic cancer diagnosis is unusual, as the disease often carries low five-year survival rates.
- The official death certificate recorded “old age,” and there has been no released medical documentation or palace confirmation that revises that entry.
- Vickers also describes Philip’s final night at Windsor Castle, saying he slipped away with a walker to pour himself a beer and died the next morning while the Queen was not in the room.