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?

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He will be treated incredibly quickly by by the very best doctors/surgeons.

He isn’t a young man so a cancer diagnosis isn’t surprising at all.

no I actually could not care less. I am more concerned about the thousands of people waiting weeks for a GP appointment, then weeks for a blood test, then weeks for a diagnosis BEFORE even waiting for treatment.

Not jealous in the slightest. I would hate to be royal. However his treatment will be very different from the rest of us.

I also suspect that the cancer is more advanced than they are letting on given that Harry jumped on the nearest plane.

Attention seeking? Why would a child visiting their parent who has been diagnosed with cancer not be a normal thing to you? 🫣

I feel sorry for him, and Camilla, and their kids, the same way I’d feel sympathy for anyone who got cancer and their wife/kids/stepkids etc. Definitely don’t feel unnerved or uneasy or anything, it’s just a sad part of life that people get unwell, more so as they get older.

InstaRam: Even people who are in remission for years, typicallly have a recurrency at some point.

Not necessarily. My husband had 9 inches of colon resected in 2011 after a colorectal adenocarcinoma was found during colonoscopy. He's had no local or distant recurrence and his surgeon does not anticipate a recurrence or metastases.

No

@Branleuse

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

Harold Shipman was a parent and grandparents. So was Hitler. I don't give a fuck.

I am against even the concept of royalty and monarchy, and then the reality with this lot is that they are mostly into hunting animals, adultery, bypassing the law of the land, and paedophilia. Barely a good one amongst them.

If you need someone to be all worried and upset that some rich cunt they've never met in order to be a 'nice person' then I guess we just wouldn't be friends in real life. How sad

Good grief @Branleuse Calm down. You will give yourself a nosebleed!

Are you OK? Serious question. You sound irrationally furious and angry - to the point of it being actually worrying...

@TakemedowntoPotatoCity

Am I unnerved? No. Why would anyone feel this? Worried, and less confident, and nervous - about the KING having cancer?

Do you know what unnerved means @TakemedowntoPotatoCity ?

Doesn't sound like you do.

Also, as a few people have said, he is quite old - 75, and if he dies it will be sad, but not exactly an untimely death. You're going on like he's 32!

No, I don't feel unnerved.

I have no issue with the royal family whatsoever, but I'm certainly not invested in their lives in the way I would be a friend or family member.

It's unfortunately not unusual for someone his age to receive a cancer diagnosis. He will, however, receive the best care possible.

No. After 40 minutes of watching GMB this morning I'd had enough. Surely there is some other news to report? Has the fighting in Gaza and Ukraine stopped?
I have very little time for the media and their speculation about whether Harry and William will make amends because of this.
And I can't help but feel sorry for all those tv viewers who either have received a cancer diagnosis or have a family member who has and who are now languishing somewhere in the NHS ether awaiting the start of their treatment.
The King will get the best treatment available in the quickest possible time. If his cancer is curable it will be cured. Unlike Jo Public whose reliance on the NHS means that for every week their treatment is delayed their chances of a complete cure are diminishing.
I wish The King no ill will. I hope his treatment is successful and he can carry on with the 'job' he has waited so long to do. But FGS media, talk about something else.

I am very sad for anyone who has cancer, one in three they say will suffer. Charles has had the luxury of being able to choose among many things the non contaminated pesticide food but still unfortunately cancer has stuck.

As for Harry rushing to his father’s side, Netflix needs new stories.
And just an additional thought, Harry shouldn’t even think of accepting any money from his ancestors as it is tainted money from trading in people. I don’t know how he could of already taken from his grandparents when he knew of the source.

😂

I thought given the age of his parents he may have at least 10/15 years with W&K being mid 50s approx when they took over the reign....

No. When my dad was diagnosed with cancer I went to visit him. Not because I thought death was imminent but simply because he's my dad.
People are reading far too much into this, not helped by the press who always try to whip everyone into a frenzy.

Not remotely. I wouldn’t wish cancer on anyone, I have it myself, but in the name of the wee man why would anyone be unsettled?

Wow, nice way to talk about a man who is still in his 30s, who's flown halfway round the world to be with his elderly father, just diagnosed with a life threatening illness. 🙄

One of the (many) things I find incomprehensible about people who still seem to believe in the divine right of kings is they way so many of them are so hate-filled when it comes to one of his children, who share the "royal blood".

I wonder how the Harry-haters among the monarchists would cope if, by some calamity, William and his family were wiped out and his brother ascended to the throne? Would they accept it, because that's how the bizarre and outdated institution that they support works, or would they forever regard him as not the "proper" king?

I sympathise with the family on a human level, but really these issues would arise in any other workplace, not just Buckingham Palace, where resourcing is important to consider.

In a way, William or whoever just need to cover for a sick co-worker, something we all have to do every single day. And we are having to do it to pay the bills, unlike them. Sure, it is complicated by the factor that the co-worker is also a family member, but even in sickness the royal family are not facing existential pressures like the rest of us do. Charles can cancel his appointments and it doesn't need anyone to cover for him straight away. They can take their time figuring out a plan.

@guineverehadgreeneyes

InstaRam: Even people who are in remission for years, typicallly have a recurrency at some point.

What you posted doesn't undermine my point which was typically , once you have cancer you are at higher risk of further cancer in the future even if you survive 5+ years, 10+ years etc post treatment of the original cancer. For some cancers (bowel cancer being an example), highest risk of recurrence is in the first two years but that's not the same as saying that long term there isn't a greater risk of dying of cancer than something else

It's never good news with cancer once it's in your system.

There will always be statistical outliers but that's no basis for the family of someone with cancer to assume its a happy prognosis because it isn't.

Urine/bladder cancers are frequently spotted as part of prostate investigation. I think he'll be ok. Rishi mentioned it was caught early and he'll be getting gold plated treatment.

Rishi mentioned it was caught early and he'll be getting gold plated treatment.

Didn't see this but PM cheerfully breaching the King's medical privacy is not good.

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I think it's unsettling because we had such a long period of stability with the last Queen, she was all most of us ever remembered. So we're just getting used to a new King, and although it was obvious that he wasn't going to reign as long as his mother, it does seem jarring to have to get your head around potentially another monarch sooner than we thought.

OP, I get why you might feel unsettled.

It's about the possibility of change for the country and loss of stability it signifies. It also highlights how fragile we all are because we all expect Charles to lead a long life like his parents before him.