A new book says that Queen Elizabeth II’s relationship with her penultimate Prime Minister Boris Johnson deteriorated so badly that when his name was mentioned at a gathering of her family and “treasured staff” two evenings before her death, the queen retorted: “Well at least I won’t have that idiot organizing my funeral now.” Johnson stood down as Prime Minister less than a week before her death, prompting one minister close to the royals to quip: “Her Majesty wanted to hang on long enough to see Boris off the premises.” The late queen was said to have been infuriated by Johnson’s constitutionally dubious maneuvers around Brexit. The new book, Out, by Tim Shipman, also says thattensions between King Charles and Johnson arose after Johnson accused Charles of “s--tbagging” his plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
