Does anyone else feel unnerved by the news about King Charles?

[TakemedowntoPotatoCity]

Yes I know this belongs in the Royal section but more traffic here for people feeling like I do.

King Charles has cancer, I am sure William is wondering if he will become King sooner than he anticipated. It makes me wonder too if Kate will be okay due to her recent surgery - William really needs her by his side if he is going to take on the Big Job.

Harry rushing home feels bad to me. I mean, it's good that he is coming to see his dad but it makes me feel as though it's serious - I just hope, hope it's not pancreatic cancer - but I just don't have a good feeling.

The Queen's only been gone 16 months. I feel out of sorts. Anyone else?

I don't really understand 'unnerved'. He's the monarch, not everyone's dad.

I don't understand people attributing odd motives to Harry coming to visit. The monarch is, in fact, his dad. That's what most people do, if it's at all possible.

I wish every cancer patient well.

They have said it's nothing to do with his enlarged prostate cancer.

Same

I could not give a shit whether any of them get cancer and die.

My brother in law does not have wife or kids and is able to commute to my mother in law anytime she has been at a hospital. We cannot do that, she is married so the man is always there looking after her also. So everyone visits their ill when they can afford timewise, job-wise, money-wise

I'm unnerved by the sheer amount of airtime it's getting. Rolling news and social media are turning every small thing into a three-ring circus. It's making us all more anxious. Even 20 years ago, when you got your news from a morning paper and a broadcast on TV at 1/6pm, you just thought about it for a short while then got on with your day.

I'm reading this and i'm thinking ''Is William very much out of sight compared to his equals over the years?''

I haven't thought about it before.

I think we've drifted along with the thing of William being shielded a bit and not being exposed to as much publicity as the older/loner running royals. But now he's 41 (?) and he's going to be king in a few years (if not sooner) and no, considering that fact, i guess i don't feel i 'see' him doing much.

Maybe for his reign he is really going to push for the 'barely there' monarchy like other countries have? Perhaps he's actively pushing against the traditional 'ramping up' years of the King To Be. Perhaps he's hoping that by the time it's George's turn it'll be almost a non-event - a photo shoot in Hello and that's about it.

What kind of cancer would they find around the prostate?! I’m hopeless at biology.

Xenophobic and misogynistic too.

No. It’s great that he’s being open (ish) about his diagnosis with the public but it didn’t warrant having to listen about it over and over again last night whilst waiting for Emmerdale 🙄. He’s in his 70’s, sadly one in 2 people will get cancer at some point in their lives, if he hadn’t have had the problem with his prostate he would be unaware that he had it? I’m sure there are many 70+ year olds waiting for appointments because they do have cancer symptoms but they might not be so lucky to catch it in time. Hopefully he will make a full recovery but if not William will get to be king, it’s not a huge deal.

Yes, I felt unsettled when the news broke telling us of their ailments and medical procedures. I thought ugh, why are they sharing this private stuff with us. Do we really need to know Charles has a prostate problem? It all felt very ‘off’ & weird to me. They felt releasing this news would make them seem real & approachable to the public??

Similarly, the way the media went into melodramatic overdrive with the news was completely cringe.

My thoughts and prayers are with all the people suffering cancer & having to wait and depend on the poor old NHS for treatment.

Bladder, kidney, bowel….I’m guessing anything in the pelvic area.

mean, it's good that he is coming to see his dad but it makes me feel as though it's serious - I just hope, hope it's not pancreatic cancer - but I just don't have a good feeling.

I know what you mean @TakemedowntoPotatoCity . I'm no royalist and don't care in the bigger picture. I thought the Queen was a great example of public service but think Charles was never going to be a patch on her.

I think for people who feel 'unsettled' its more about the fact that the death of the Queen was a huge disturbance to the backdrop of life in the UK - whether you care or not. For many people she was the only monarch they had known. It felt a bit like the nation's caretaker Grandma had died.

The announcement about Charles is obviously serious if he is having treatment that means he's out of action until March - which suggests there is at least a possiblity he may die. Let's face it once you have cancer in your body, the long term prognosis is rarely great. Even people who are in remission for years, typicallly have a recurrency at some point.

The fact that it isn't prostate cancer but was discovered during that being dealt with, suggests to me it is likely to be some sort of lower body cancer or a type of blood cancer. It's unlikely to be lung cancer for example because they wouldn't have worded it the way they have - he wouldn't have been having lung scans or poking about in his lungs if the primary issue was the prostate. If that's right there are a whole load of cancers that are fast moving with poor prognosis in the lower body (pancreatic, stomach, bowel) but that's not to say there are others that have better outcomes. If it was the sort of think with a quick treatmeent and good outcome, then they probably wouldn't have announced it at all - just said he was a bit under the weather.

I agree Harry coming back suggests its more serious than the announcement suggests.

So all of this means that it's possible that one big national unheaval could be followed shortly by another state funeral and another coronation, which following on from the big changes following the death of the queen feels a bit odd even if you don't really care about it.

No coronations for 70 years then two in quick succession would be very odd.

I feel sorry for the King because he is a human being and he is old, sick and likely scared. His presence or absence really has no bearing on my life. I was surprised to be moved when the Queen died but I had no interest in the new coronation. I have even less interest in William / Harry (although the Nazi fancy dress did make me eye roll some years back).

Expected responses on here.

I do get what you mean op.

Gosh you have a vivid imagination.

Harry doesn't care about you either
Neither does the king for that matter
And American Witch ?
Grow up.

Harry is thanking the gods for the opportunity to get back in with the RF since he and Me-again have discovered that they have shot their "tell-all" bolt and have no creative talent to offer, and that their only currency is their connection to the RF.

Yes, agree OP. Apart from the human sympathy and feeling sorry that he's not going to get much chance to do all the things he probably wanted to get on with as Kind, it feels like an upheaval when we're (and I mean me and the DC) still not quite remembering that the Queen is gone and that feeling of someone being stable and always there was going to be hard to replace. Also don't fancy William as king!

It must take up so much emotional energy being a hate-filled cynic.

Unnerved? No. 'Man in his seventies gets cancer' is obviously not good news for him but why would it affect anyone else?

I presume the royals have regular thorough check ups for everything so that whatever cancer it is is probably not that advanced, …. Well I would be surprised if it was
Hopefully he will be ok

You sound like a nice person. I'm not affected in any way but I have sympathy as he's still a husband, father and grandfather.