The king has cancer

[TheBayLady]

Wow. What a shock

In the nicest possible way, I'm sure he's got a much better chance of recovery that 99.9% of the people diagnosed with the same cancer.
It's a shame, I hope he recovers. As I would any other person.

Money doesn't stop you dying of cancer. Look at Steve Jobs, alongside all the other extremely rich people who have died of cancer.

Has Harry tried to grab headlines by rushing over?

Didn't Steve Jobs treat an early stage cancer with alternative "treatments" rather than actual medicine?

What is wrong with you?

FFS. Ever had a parent diagnosed with cancer? DH and I have had that pleasure 9 times (yes, really, no that doesn't include basal cell) and it's very normal to want to visit.

Steve Jobs was in the tiny minority who had treatable pancreatic cancer, but he chose to swerve conventional medicine and died as a result.

I'm rooting for Charles, of course I wish him well but after listening to ITV news wheeling out "experts" to repeat themselves for 1.5 hours, Emmerdale better be on, or else!!!

That isn't the King's fault...!

I didn't say it was his fault but he and the firm could do more to aid the inequality and of young children losing their parents if they really wanted to. It's worse than ever atm.

I bet Charles won't be relying on his beloved homeopathy!

I wish him and his family the best. I imagine that if he made a statement saying he was going to use the NHS people would complain that he was making the wait longer for others as he could go private.

I know someone who had cancer treatment privately recently as they're pretty wealthy- that's a normal thing for many people and I don't begrudge them. If I had the money I'd do the same.

Harry can't get this right. He comes over alone he's hogging the limelight, comes with his family she's hogging the limelight and if he doesn't come he'll be a heartless bastard. The anti Meghan and Harry folk will be happy they've got more bollocks to shout about though with their made up theories.

I hope that they leave it be soon and let them get on with it. We don't need daily updates after today.
(Apart from the daily mail etc who will be quick to put the boot into Harry once he rolls up I suppose , I actually don't envy him )

Nobody begrudges him. The point that people are making to the pearl clutchers on this thread is that the king will have a much better chance of survival than most people would. I certainly don't wish him ill and I know how awful cancer and the effects of treatment are.

It took 5 months for my first cancer in 2016. It took my husband taking me to a&e in the end to even get the ball rolling. The radiographer in a&e did and ultrasound, he gave me a printout of his findings and told me to take it to my gp ASAP because he couldn't do anything to help.

The DM will probably blame H and M for the fact that his poorly : I did read a comment saying this..

I’m so sorry. Having had a parent die recently from cancer my advice is to keep on at them, bug them make sure they know you are still waiting. I wish I had done this. Best wishes

He’s 75/76 years old and the body is in a fairly swift descent at this point, especially with the discovery of cancer. Let’s hope he has a good quality of his life remaining and that he has some good years left. However at this age it’s difficult to know with certainty what the prognosis is.

Slightly different as he refused conventional treatments first and then when he wanted them it was too late.

Charles praised his medics for a swift diagnosis, a privilege afforded to so few nowadays with people literally dying on waiting lists. Fortune favours the fortunate

If it is to do with his prostate, lots of men live with this for years, and we know he will get the very best of treatment. Not nice, but harder for the people sitting on waiting lists who cant afford to go private.

😂

There’s also a prediction that the sky is going to fall on all of our heads this afternoon. Doesn’t mean it’s going to come true.

And anyone with even passing knowledge of the rules of succession knows that particularly ludicrous prediction also won’t come true!

Amusing, though…

No…seems to be an incidental finding. Discovered when he had his prostate surgery.

My god - if you’re on mumsnet you can Google BBC! Not sure how some people on here manage to write their own name sometimes

I thought Charles was quite into woo stuff like homeopathy?

Not much point in trying. He won't get the throne.

I feel sorry for anyone who has been given a cancer diagnosis. Always a worrying time for everyone.