Posted on 02/05/2024 10:05:53 AM PST by rdl6989
King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, says Buckingham Palace.
It is not prostate cancer, but was discovered during his recent treatment for an enlarged prostate.
The type of cancer has not been revealed, but according to a palace statement the King began "regular treatments" on Monday.
Buckingham Palace says the King "remains wholly positive about his treatment and looks forward to returning to full public duty as soon as possible".
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King Edward VII only reigned for 9 years (1/1901-5/1910) after Victoria died. Hopefully, Charles’ reign will be longer than that. Edward was only 69 when he died; Charles is 75.
“Camilla was a real bad second pick, imo”
WRONG! Camilla was his FIRST pick, the queen said No F-ing way.
Harry’s going to be with his dad.....they didn’t say anything about HER.
There used to be 5 of us brothers.
Lost the first in 72 to a brain tumor.From diagnosis he lasted two years.28 when
he died.
Lost the second in 2008 to small cell lung cancer. From diagnosis he lasted
7 months. 52 when he died.
Lost the third one in 2009 to bladder cancer. He lived about 5 years from diagnosis. 67 when he died.
Lost the fourth one last year from complications of diabetes.H was 70 when he died.
I was with the last two when they died, holding my mother’s hand. It was the most pitiful thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life.She would join them 10 months later. I think cancer is the work of the devil.
probably because they jumped the gun when the Queen was dying with a PR that said Markle was going...only to have to backtrack because she is persona non grata.
no way does King william want that narcissist around him
I’d say William doesn’t want either of them near him or his family.
i think probably very true..but for harry he will try to keep up appearances but there is no way that harry will be allowed back in until he ditches markle and comes crawling back ...gets help....and they send him off to some quiet place to live the rest of his days.
Pathetic excuse of a human being
I really believe the rumors that they are keeping close eye on Harry for fear he will kill himself. He has always been mentally ill...takes after Diana
IMO one’s as bad as the other in that couple.
Thanks for the info on your personal experience. I was wondering if it could possibly be lymphoma that he was diagnosed with, since the article I read said the prostate was benign. When my youngest son had a double colon resection for cancerous polyps in 2019, they also took out around 80 of his surrounding lymph nodes as a precaution. He went through 6 months of Chemo treatments, and thankfully, has been cancer-free.
My condolences.
Yeah and ditched Diana! Sometimes commitment and loyalty have to overrule a forbidden love that often may spring up during dry and challenging times in a marriage.
Sorry not going for it. True men follow Proverbs 4:23...Guard the heart for from it flow the issues of life! Truly Good kings have to especially guard their hearts for their actions affect nations!
markle staying home..but sheesh...harry could have taken the grandchildren
Forrest Gump said that he was sent to Viet Nam, and that they were always looking for a guy named Charlie.
And sometimes to simply exist, you have to get rid of the crazies in your life and let them make themselves miserable. Self preservation against bad choice spouses can be the difference between happiness and lifelong misery. Not saying this personally as I have an absolutely wonderful ex, but not all people are worth giving up your own sanity for. Divorce can be salvation for many. I’m into genealogy and my family has divorced since the 1600s so I’m a big believer in applauding when someone realizes they’ve made a big mistake.
Ditching Diana was one of Charles’ best moves.
A few years later, however, when the marriage was crumbling, Diana did turn in desperation to her mother-in-law.
She’d sit in the page’s vestibule next to the Queen’s sitting room, wait for any visitors to come out, then push her way in without waiting to be announced.
Often in tears, she’d rant about Charles, saying he hated her, and rail against her mother, her stepmother, her sister Jane and her husband Robert Fellowes, and anyone else who had upset her. Everyone else was to blame: Diana insisted that she was being victimised and no one understood her.
The Queen came to dread these meetings. She’d never had to deal with such outbursts in her life, and they left her feeling drained, despondent and confused.
‘She just procrastinated,’ a member of the Royal Household said at the time. She listened to what Diana said, ‘but no solution was ever put forward.’
Prince Charles, meanwhile, was reduced to shouting down the telephone at his mother to try to make her understand the depths of his unhappiness.
Most of the Royal Family blamed him for the state of the marriage; if Charles had been firmer in the beginning, they thought, many of the later difficulties with Diana would have been avoided.
But the Prince was either too accommodating, too timid or – as many of the household staff maintained – too weak to call his wife to order.
Needless to say, there was far less understanding of mental illness in the 1980s than there is today.
Princess Margaret felt that the princess, who was throwing herself into a series of affairs, was making a fool of her husband.
The Queen Mother, for her part, suspected that Diana was incapable of telling the truth.
Like his mother and grandmother, Charles hated confrontation and did what he usually did when faced with a crisis beyond his immediate control: he turned away from it. When things got too much, he drove to Wiltshire for a few hours with his lover Camilla Parker Bowles, who herself suffered from her husband’s infidelities.
She seemed like a rock of sanity amid the storm of hysteria.
She’s probably afraid he’d keep them there and she’d lose her blackmail insurance.
So very sorry you’ve been through such pain. I hope the good moments between you all rise higher in your memory than those last moments.
ADORABLE!!! He’ll make fun reading over the next few years.
Arranged/forced marriages seldom work. He was too old for her, and loved someone else.
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