This illness “explains her constant fatigue and weight loss, as well as the mobility problems that we were often told about during the last year of her life.” Brandreth wrote: “The truth is that Her Majesty has always known that her time is limited. She accepted it with all the grace you would expect from a queen.” According to doctors, the symptoms of multiple myeloma include bone pain, nausea, weakness and numbness in the legs. The palace did not confirm or deny the statement of the writer, who really was a member of the royal family and knew many of its secrets. Recall that in the official death certificate of Elizabeth II, which was made public in September, only old age was indicated as the cause of her death.