Nobody Is Sure What Queen Elizabeth II Died From

The UK's longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, has died at the age of 96.

The cause of her death, even in approximations, remains a noted omission from any official communication.

That's not uncommon. The medical condition of British monarchs has been a secret.

The lack of information for a Western head of state is striking.

The cause of Margaret Thatcher's death was a stroke. The cause of Madeleine Albright's death was cancer.

Death announcements of well-known world figures are not always clear. The family of George H.W. Bush didn't specify a cause when he died, but they were aware that he had been diagnosed with a neurological condition.

The Queen canceled a scheduled online meeting at the advice of doctors, but she had other plans.

Until her death, authorities have only released a small amount of information.

Buckingham Palace says that the Queen died peacefully at her estate in Scotland.

There are very little health details left. It's difficult to connect the Queen's positive test for COVID-19 in February with her death six months later.

According to The Washington Post, the Queen was hospitalized for a night last year for some preliminary investigations. She was in need of rest and officials wouldn't say why.

According to a May statement by Buckingham Palace, she had been suffering from "episodic mobility problems" since late last year, which caused her to miss a number of public appointments. A limited mobility is not a terminal condition.

It's pointless to speculate as to what caused her condition to decline so quickly, but it must have been a rapid decline.

The health of members of the Royal Family has always been a closely guarded secret.

Silence can be a cover for a lot of strange things. In 1986 it was revealed that Elizabeth II's grandfather King George V was euthanized by his physician in 1936 with a fatal dose of morphine and cocaine so that his death would appear in the morning papers.

The cause of Elizabeth II's death will only be known after a certain time. British taxpayers footed her medical bills the entire time she was alive.

The Queen is said to be very sick.