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King Charles has cancer

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CormorantStrikesBack · 05/02/2024 18:01

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

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BlackLabradors · 05/02/2024 21:52

BeverForget · 05/02/2024 21:49

I bet Diana won't be on the staircase next to Captain Tom and the alpaca though...

Did I walk into a parallel universe?

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 05/02/2024 21:53

BlackLabradors · 05/02/2024 21:52

Did I walk into a parallel universe?

Stairway to heaven presumably. Got Diana being there. Got Captain Tom being there. But wot's the alpaca doing there??

BeverForget · 05/02/2024 21:55

BlackLabradors · 05/02/2024 21:52

Did I walk into a parallel universe?

You must have seen that awful graphic that gets posted every time someone swirls down the great drain in the sky..?

Idontpostmuch · 05/02/2024 21:55

PaperSky · 05/02/2024 21:47

I think I remember reading a few years ago about William and his family all flying together, and the Queen was supposedly really angry with him.

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If it's so important, why have William and Charles sometimes been in the same car, and, until Diana death, been without seatbelts on private ground?

Thunderbird7 · 05/02/2024 21:55

RingOnAString · 05/02/2024 21:37

No, that’s not the same calculation.

British tourism generates £X.
The portion of that that is estimated to be generated by the RF is £X.

It’s the amount they add to our tourism income. Of course our tourism income is much higher.

I don’t think there is an exact pound-for-pound value because so much of what they provide isn’t quantifiable - soft power, influence, cultural power, constitutional stability, historical preservation, a link to our past and our future, etc. Those things have a value or generate value but it’s hard to say exactly how much.

The thing is, countries that abolish the monarchy still have to do all of those things somehow. So the idea that if we abolished the monarchy we’d suddenly have a spare £X million to spend on Our Glorious NHS is for the birds.

If you look at France, they don’t have spare cash lying around, they haven’t done away with pomp and ceremony, they don’t not bother with trying to generate soft power and cultural power, they just do it in different ways (which also cost public investment).

I also find the UK republicans’ vision of a country with all the supposed “unnecessaries” stripped away - no pomp & circumstance, no public events which require policing, nobody who becomes internationally important enough to require protection, art and antiquities sold off, no public money spent preserving old buildings and parks, no “nice things” - all a bit depressing.

EdithWeston · 05/02/2024 21:56

Piscesmumma1978 · 05/02/2024 21:44

The Queen had bone cancer didn’t she? Maybe it’s similar? Genetics can play a big part in cancer sometimes.

No, I don't think she did.

Nothing's ever been confirmed. But the Gyles Brandreth account seems to be the one people mean when talking about the late Queen having cancer.

But he didn't say bone cancer, he said bone marrow cancer, and they're not remotely the same thing - bone marrow cancer is a type of blood cancer

januaryjan · 05/02/2024 21:57

BeverForget · 05/02/2024 21:49

I bet Diana won't be on the staircase next to Captain Tom and the alpaca though...

Who the what now?😕

Rachie1973 · 05/02/2024 21:58

EdithWeston · 05/02/2024 21:56

No, I don't think she did.

Nothing's ever been confirmed. But the Gyles Brandreth account seems to be the one people mean when talking about the late Queen having cancer.

But he didn't say bone cancer, he said bone marrow cancer, and they're not remotely the same thing - bone marrow cancer is a type of blood cancer

The rumour (and it is nothing more than a rumour) is that she had multiple myeloma.

User2356542 · 05/02/2024 21:58

ferntwist · 05/02/2024 21:36

Does anyone have information on what kind of cancer it might be? (Obviously they’ve said it’s not prostate.)

Wishing him a speedy recovery

Whatever it is, I doubt it was a totally incidental finding. Considering he is literally THE KING, they probably used the opportunity of him being in hospital and available for GA to do a thorough check of every possible symptom. It could easily be an area that is entirely unrelated to the prostate. I doubt they were scanning the prostate and went "Wait, I see something in the corner there". They probably scheduled thorough blood tests, scans of all body parts, maybe even a colonoscopy during the whole time he was in hospital. This would have been convenient in reducing public alarm if he had to go in separately again.

Twonewcats · 05/02/2024 21:58

Roussette · 05/02/2024 21:09

No, I won't PM you. No thanks. I am on a thread about King Charles and his health.

Here's a link for you to feast your eyes on. I won't be responding again.

https://www.republic.org.uk/the_true_cost_of_the_royals

So the one link you provide is from a website aimed at getting rid of the RF? 😂

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 05/02/2024 21:59

BeverForget · 05/02/2024 21:55

You must have seen that awful graphic that gets posted every time someone swirls down the great drain in the sky..?

Oh I KNOW what the alpaca is. It's that one that was euthanised by the Government vets after the owner fought to keep it alive, isn't it?

Blimey, some people are weird. Diana, Captain Tom and an alpaca. I think I need to go to bed.

StoneTheCrone · 05/02/2024 22:00

Poor Charles and what a worrying time for family and friends too.

I wish him a speedy recovery.

RoyKentmyhero · 05/02/2024 22:00

BeverForget · 05/02/2024 21:49

I bet Diana won't be on the staircase next to Captain Tom and the alpaca though...

😂😂

Mummyoflittledragon · 05/02/2024 22:01

SweetBirdsong · 05/02/2024 21:46

The huge amount the UK Royals bring in compared to what they cost the UK taxpayer is not 'irrelevant' at all @Roussette but you keep telling yourself that it is.

No matter WHAT facts are presented to you to support the Royal family bringing in LOADS more money than they cost, you just won't have it will you?

It's quite bizarre, and also quite funny.

You do you. But the facts are out there. No matter how much you hate them, the UK Royal family DO bring in much more than they cost.

FACT.

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Exactly. We don’t see anyone visiting President Macron etc. The only equivalent is the USA due to the superpower status. We most certainly are not in that league.

BeverForget · 05/02/2024 22:02

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 05/02/2024 21:53

Stairway to heaven presumably. Got Diana being there. Got Captain Tom being there. But wot's the alpaca doing there??

The alpaca. Geronimo?
He is always on the stairway graphic welcoming people to, presumably, Heaven.
Alongside Diana Of Hearts, Captain Tom, Mother Theresa, Cilla Black, and others of the serried ranks of the worthy celebrity dead.
Heaven doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 05/02/2024 22:03

BeverForget · 05/02/2024 22:02

The alpaca. Geronimo?
He is always on the stairway graphic welcoming people to, presumably, Heaven.
Alongside Diana Of Hearts, Captain Tom, Mother Theresa, Cilla Black, and others of the serried ranks of the worthy celebrity dead.
Heaven doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

If that's what's waiting in heaven, I'm not going.

derxa · 05/02/2024 22:05

I also find the UK republicans’ vision of a country with all the supposed “unnecessaries” stripped away - no pomp & circumstance, no public events which require policing, nobody who becomes internationally important enough to require protection, art and antiquities sold off, no public money spent preserving old buildings and parks, no “nice things” - all a bit depressing.
Totally agree. Although I do approve of the French farmer tractor protests

januaryjan · 05/02/2024 22:05

BeverForget · 05/02/2024 22:02

The alpaca. Geronimo?
He is always on the stairway graphic welcoming people to, presumably, Heaven.
Alongside Diana Of Hearts, Captain Tom, Mother Theresa, Cilla Black, and others of the serried ranks of the worthy celebrity dead.
Heaven doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

My head hurts. 😶

3luckystars · 05/02/2024 22:10

That’s awful. I’m very sorry to hear that news.

TiredCatLady · 05/02/2024 22:11

He hasn’t looked well in a while - has definitely lost weight. I’m no monarchist but cancer is a horrible illness and I wish him well.

Veggie1961 · 05/02/2024 22:12

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SweetBirdsong · 05/02/2024 22:15

Good question @Veggie1961 ^

BlackLabradors · 05/02/2024 22:15

I feel sorry for Pike walking up the staircase and no one cares because everyone is speculating about a cancer but don’t know what part of the body it affects never mind what stage it is.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 05/02/2024 22:16

Inkanta · 05/02/2024 20:18

I hope Charles can recover from this and that he takes as long as he needs. By all accounts he should be able to retire at his age like everybody else and put his feet up. The rules for the sovereign need to be brought up to date with the times.

Totally agree Inkanta, though for me there's the caveat of "if we have to have them at all"

The farce around Edward VIII was nearly a century ago for pity's sake, and abdication's worked well enough in the Netherlands (and Belgium and Spain, though admittedly their own scandals were involved there)

There's really no good reason for it not to be done, and after Georges V and VI it's hardly unprecedented to have someone we didn't expect on the throne

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