King Charles has cancer

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Just announced on the bbc, doesn’t say what sort yet. Hope he’s going to be ok.

These people have staff. They don't actually do anything. Get rid of the lot of them. The scroungers.

There is no way the public would accept Harry back in that role. Not after all he has done and said. I doubt very much William would want it either .

It would be the symptoms from the treatment and the risk of seeing the king attending hospital every week I’d guess. Then if it failed the possible surgery to remove and then the recovery.

Thank you. Thought the world had gone mad there for a minute.

All things said, if there was a choice between Harry or Paul the Octopus becoming King my vote is for the Octopoda.

And even if he did divorce his children are in the USA. He's not going to abandon them and come back to the UK.

If he did just walk away from them that would make people even less likely to accept him back into a public role.

Yep, very shocked here too. Poor man. I hope he will be OK. He is 75. Sadly, I don't think he will see 80. (Hope I'm wrong!)

Don't tempt fate, would only take one helicopter crash then here come King Harold and Queen Rachel.

The queen was a stickler for those in the line of succession not travelling together, and apparently unhappy when William and George did so... I wonder if that will now get reviewed?

Harry's coming back to see his Dad. Hopefully they can build some bridges.

He was in fact Christened as Henry but goes under the name Harry in daily life

I guess they had to announce it as he's going to be absent for treatment and may look very different after it. It's just the sad fact of becoming King so late in life.

Hey - we all have our weaknesses.

You can't be sure that if somebody offered you a few thousand delicious bivalves you wouldn't be tempted . . .

I really think that if Harry is welcomed back in any official capacity it would be the end of the monarchy.

I would hate to lose it. It brings in more money than it costs, and I feel that having a monarch with no (open) poiitcal affiliations is a huge asset to the country.

I wish him well of course, just as anyone would. Cancer is the leveller of suffering and side effects and prognoses. King or peasant.

I've often wondered about his life and how fulfilled it is/was so far. He AFAIK hasn't had a real job in his life up to his coronation. Now he has one hell of a biggie as King at three quarters of a century old. It's a bit topsy turvy to me. Not working a proper job when younger and then working a top job when older and past normal retirement age. Should be the other way round!

I have to say that to me he was inoffensive and not too regal or pompous (in public anyway), but at the Coronation I thought he looked quite unwell. I put it down to nerves, a bout of nervous diarrhoea and upset tum, calming drugs herbal tea, and lack of sleep the night before while he was trying on his crown and practising his lines. But who knows?

We will know soon enough though what's going on, bit by bit maybe but in fact the King is to be admired for his openness in revealing the diagnosis so quickly.

Ah ! Words of wisdom !

I'm so sorry.

It's a cruel condition.

Wishing King Charles a speedy recovery.!!!!!

At Charles' age even if the treatment is successful, it's not unrealistic that he might abdicate and hand things over to William.

I don't think he would abdicate except under the most extreme necessity, because of the pressure it would put on William, Catherine and their children. He might not expect to be there until all the children reach adulthood (that would be another twelve and a bit years) but he might hope to be around until George at least is 18.

Of course Kate has cooks and cleaners and people doing food shopping etc and nannies , all this nonsense on tv as well about William looking after her

It brings in more money than it costs

A myth

It must have been strange for Camilla on Friday when she opened the new Maggies centre at the Royal Free. They've said the diagnosis was known at that point. It must be strange to listen to stories about conversations had with consultants etc and be thinking "yes, I know that feeling" without saying anything.

If it is prostate cancer that has spread, it’s most likely to his bones.

Haven't you read the item in the news, it's not prostate cancer!

I also don't think he would ever abdicate because he's a man who was partly brought up by his grandmother - QEQM was bitter her whole life about the abdication. He's been brought up hearing that abdication is shameful, a betrayal, drove his grandfather to an early grave and his mother onto the throne young.

Wishing him and everyone else who has received a cancer diagnosis a speedy recovery.

Beatrice and Eugenie are definitely not needed.

We really don't need hangers on to be paid even more tax money to cut ribbons.

Scaling back of royal duties will suffice. It's fine. We'll get over it.
No need to waste more money on folk that mean nothing.