Johnson, who met with the queen at Balmoral Castle just a few days before her death on Sept. 8, 2022, writes in his memoir, titled "Unleashed," about the queen's appearance in their final meeting. "She seemed pale and more stooped,

In his book, “Unleashed,” Johnson writes that he was aware “for more than a year that she had a form of bone cancer and her doctors were worried that at any time she could enter a sharp decline.”