The king has cancer

[TheBayLady]

Wow. What a shock

Like 'normal' people. Who must have not bought it on themselves ...

My amazing work colleague died a few weeks ago aged 44. An absolutely amazing beautiful human being. The care she got from the NHS and compassion was brilliant. I hope King Charles gets well. Am not a royalist TBH but he has waited 70 plus years to start his job! Hope this diagnosis brings him and his family back together inc Harry .

Actually I care about anyone who is seriously ill, so you're completely wrong.

Called empathy and basic humanity. You might want to order some. It's free at point of use and doesn't even come out of your taxes.

I'm afraid life doesn't care you were born a titled person , just flesh and blood like us , sometimes your family can have a really shit time , and here it is .

Being seen for diagnostic tests and having an operation or beginning treatment are quite different.

I have breast cancer and waited 45 days for surgery. Government target is 30 days.

Family dysfunction is the result of family members behaviour, therefore everyone is responsible for it. What does normal people mean?

Multiple cancer patients on this thread are showing you that is not always the case.

What a horrible comment. Is any family in the country totally squeaky clean?!!

This thread has only served to prove how many utterly odious people are out there, sadly with access to the internet!!

No age at all, sorry to hear that.

The NHS are truly a godsend. My mum gets great care every morning and night from the care workers.

1 in 2 of us will get cancer at some point during our lives. Being Royal doesn't exempt you from that.

Aside from the fact you now know he does NOT have prostate cancer, it can be an aggressive serious disease-it kills 10,000 men a year and is a bloody awful way to go. Your uncle was lucky, and you should get regularly PSA check-ups from age 45 since it's in your family and you seem to have a very blasé attitude towards it. My dad certainly didn't live 20 years from diagnosis with it, many men do but there are different types and some are far more aggressive than others. I have huge regrets over not taking my dads cancer seriously and showing enough support or worry til we knew it was stage 4 because of this type of attitude that "oh prostate cancer never kills."

I hope whatever it is King Charles has it's been in caught in the early stages. It's a very worrying time and my heart goes out to all the Royal family.

That isn't to detract from how worrying this may be for the Royal Family, but it does show that being "Special" means nothing and that maybe we're all equal???

Everyone's lives matter. Not just the King's

No but people put the royal family on a pedestal as it they are

It’s a little depressing people in some cases can’t separate their feelings about privilege from compassion.
I’m not a royalist, I don’t follow the royal family and I’d happily dismantle the whole class system and have a massive redistribution of wealth.
I also genuinely wish him health, his family the best and I hope for a good outcome. It’s sad news for a husband, father and grandfather to receive. His level of care won’t ever harm my family’s, I have no need to drag him down to the low standards that just shouldn’t happen.

I think some of the comments here are sufficient to prove that they do not!

Well aren’t you lovely. Clearly you missed the rest of my post.

Laughing at the thought of him sitting up in a NHS bed with his crown at a jaunty angle on his head.

Sorry for not being permanently online 🙄🙄🙄

You don’t have to be ‘permanently online’.

Just do your own googling - it’s quicker, and makes you look less of a numpty

Thank you . She really was an amazing,strong person. She was still at work a few weeks before she died.X

but if you can be on mumsnet (i.e. online) you can very quickly be on google - so if you actually want a 'credible' source, it's quicker than someone on here answering you!

I wish him a speedy recovery.

I don't understand those saying it's a shock though...he's a 75 year old man so not far from average life expectancy and half of us get cancer. It's the opposite of shocking surely

I’m sorry to hear that and wish you well on your treatment. 💐💐 for you and anyone else going through treatment.

Of course I have sympathy for him as I would for anyone with such a diagnosis. But it's been on the news for an hour, it's in all the papers as if there's no other news. It's all the fawning that's unnecessary.