Queen was "on it" just two days before her death and it was incredible "sense of duty had kept her going," Boris Johnson said.
The former Prime Minister also added the shocking revelation that he and the Queen had not talked about the Partygate scandal and that his weekly meeting with her had been "a fantastic break from everything else".Mr Johnson was speaking with the BBC's Fiona Bruce following the Queen's death and had been describing the last meeting they had had together. READ MORE: Prince Andrew to wear military uniform again at vigil to Queen to show 'special respect'Johnson had travelled to Balmoral Castle just two days before she passed away there, to resign as Prime Minister after a mass walkout of his own MPs.
He said his last audience with her had made her death "shocking" because "in that audience, she'd been absolutely on it. Just two days before her death."Ex-Tory leader Johnson continued: "She was actively focused on geopolitics, on UK politics, quoting statesmen from the 50s - it was quite extraordinary."He added that she seemed "very bright, very focused.
She was clearly not well and that was the thing that I found so moving when I heard about her death".Mr Johnson added: "How incredible that her sense of duty had kept her going in the way that it had.
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