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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-09T13:37:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Andrew's alleged 'physical altercation' with Palace staff member explained",
    "Meghan Markle 'rules out writing memoir' despite receiving lucrative offers",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nBoris Johnson was warned by Dominic Cummings that he could \"kill the Queen\" by infecting her with coronavirus, it has been claimed.\n\nThe alleged incident occurred in March 2020, the month in which then-Prime Minister Johnson imposed a nationwide lockdown amid the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nPrime ministers usually hold a weekly audience with the monarch, which tends to occur on a Wednesday.\n\nAt the time, Mr Johnson had been attempting to organise his weekly audience with Queen Elizabeth II.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHowever, in the lead-up to the meeting, senior advisors began panicking as the Prime Minister started to show symptoms of the highly infectious virus.\n\nAccording to Robert Hardman, whose biography on Queen Elizabeth II was released today, Mr Johnson had been insistent on meeting the monarch.\n\nThat was until his chief adviser, Mr Cummings, stepped in, allegedly declaring: \"You will kill the Queen!\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe excerpt, from Mr Hardman's biography of Queen Elizabeth II, may give a small insight into the relationship between the former monarch and Prime Minister.\n\nMr Johnson told GB News previously that his weekly meetings with the Queen were one of the \"joys of the job\".\n\n\"It was a kind of free psychotherapy, and there was no confession so appalling,\" he told the People's Channel in 2024.\n\n\"She’d heard it all before.\"\n\n### LATEST ROYAL NEWS\n\n\n\n\n  * Andrew's alleged 'physical altercation' with Palace staff member explained\n  * Meghan Markle 'rules out writing memoir' despite receiving lucrative offers\n  * New details emerge on Prince Harry's feud with Queen Elizabeth II's close ally\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHe added the late monarch was \"always very supportive\" and \"full of really good advice\".\n\nBut despite this, in a book released by Tim Shipman later that year, the Queen was accused of calling Mr Johnson an \"idiot\" days before her death in 2022.\n\n\"Well, at least I won't have that idiot organising my funeral now,\" she is alleged to have said on September 6 - just two days before she died.\n\nMr Johnson dismissed the claim to GB News as \"highly unlikely\".\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nAccording to the author, the sentiment about the ex-Tory leader was \"widely shared\" within the royal household.\n\nMr Shipman also suggests she felt Mr Johnson was \"perhaps better suited to the stage\".\n\nQueen Elizabeth II saw a record 15 prime ministers at the helm of the British government across her 70-year reign.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Dominic Cummings 'warned Boris Johnson he could kill the Queen by infecting her with coronavirus'"
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