Prince Philip's Secret Health Battle: 8 Years with Pancreatic Cancer

On March 28, a new book drops a bombshell on Prince Philip's health battle.

He lived with pancreatic cancer for nearly eight years before passing in.

April 2021 at age 99, just two months shy of his 100th birthday.

Back in June 2013, during an 11-day hospital stay for abdominal surgery at the London clinic,

doctors spotted a shadow on his pancreas, and confirmed it was inoperable after cutting

him open to check.

His death certificate listed old age, but this reveal shows he toughed it out way longer

than most, with that diagnosis, even stepping back from royal.

Duties four years later in 2017, on his spinal night at Windsor Castle, Philip ditched the

nurses, shuffled to the sitting room on his walker, poured himself a beer and sipped

it.

Solo next morning, he bathed, fell off, and slipped away quietly.

Queen Elizabeth, his wife of 73 years, wasn't there, and felt the sting of him leaving

without a goodbye, but his grit right to the end.

Pain's a picture of a man who beat the odds on his own terms.