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.

We are all researching urgently on insta and the mail. So she was bulimic as Charles called her fat. Wow.

the 80s are this way =>

There is no "single reason" for bulimia one person calls you fat is never "the reason"

FFS!

This thread !

I'm a bit lost now over the relevance to who said 'fat' to who.

I was hanging on till then. Even through the lama on the stairs bit.

Its unlikely to be bowel cancer because Rishi Sunak says the cancer has been caught early and the gold standard treatment for bowel cancer is surgery. Bladder cancer is easy to treat and he is likely to have chemo tablets at home. The prognosis for bladder cancer is very positive. It is usually relatively easy to cure.
If cancer hasn't spread outside the bladder, the five-year survival rate is 96 percent.

I can’t believe the overwhelming interest in a very old man’s cancer diagnosis - not surprising given his age - and the total lack of interest in the whereabouts and health of the much younger princess of wales - very surprising. As is her total silence, the disappearance and silence of her problematic husband, and the total silence and apparent lack of inquisitiveness of the British press in a woman who has not been seen for 6 weeks where the foreign press is reporting she has been in a coma. It is like there are ten alarms and flashing red lights going off about her but everyone is ignoring them because they have been distracted by an old man blowing bubbles in the corner.

I like and respect King Charles.
But there has been not one single post of support or even flicker of interest from any of my Facebook friends. Or me either, for that matter.
Makes me think that, were the worst to happen, there wouldn't be much 'outpouring of grief'.

[8] Prince Charles called her chubby
Diana: The bulimia started the week
after we got engaged. My husband put
his hand on my waistline and said,
“Oooh, a bit chubby here, aren’t we?”
And that triggered something in me.
And I remember the first time I made
myself sick, I was so thrilled. Because I
thought, “Right, this is the release, the
tension.” (00:31:07 – 00:31:25)

Source Vol. 8 No. 1. Januari 2022 LADY DIANA'S CONSTRUCTED ...

Very old man? he's 75. Very old would be in his nineties.

Yes I agree. I was implying it was all smoke and mirrors.

I’m sure many of us could aspire to be, or at least be called, intellectuals, if we could summon up a place at Cambridge, call on any historian or tutor in the land to give us private lessons, afford the time to research something deeply, the resources to travel, houses big enough to hold vast libraries and ancient artefacts and works of art, teams of people to research on our behalf etc etc.

I could go on but it’s probably inappropriate atm given his ill health. I wish KC well on a personal level but I think the role they have to play opens them up to inherent credibility issues.

A bit like Edward wearing all of those medals he didn’t earn.

Okaaaay….

I’m not suggesting he declare his grief.

But like it or not - and I suspect he doesn’t - he’s a public figure.

All we’ve had is a photo of him in his car. Contrast that with Camilla.

Contrast also the difference in TV coverage of the very serious but undisclosed health issues of the present King; and the TV coverage of the very serious but undisclosed health issues of the future Queen, and wife & mother of the future Kings. I’m baffled.

In 2022 life expectancy for both males and females at birth fell when compared to 2021. Male life expectancy fell from 78.71 years to 78.57 years, and from 82.68 years to 82.57 years for women.

So yeah he is a very old man.

Why are you baffled, are you somehow under the impression Kate is not permitted to make her own decisions on what she reveals about her health publicly? Or that they can’t ask the media to back off and they comply? What exactly is baffling you?

Is it just me or is there a sudden influx of people suggesting that the illnesses of HM and the PoW are much more serious than we've been told (according to the European press 🙄) and that we're being lied to somehow?

It is like there are ten alarms and flashing red lights going off about her but everyone is ignoring them because they have been distracted by an old man blowing bubbles in the corner

What, you reckon William's murdered her and buried her under the patio?

I didn’t say make a statement. I was thinking more along the lines of a soft focus interview with Good Housekeeping, or Waitrose magazine. Or a statement of the type such as letting themselves be seen entering the hospital. I feel like their silence is speaking volumes, I just don’t know what.

Their daughter is the most famous woman in the world, and a public figure as well as a private one. But maybe I’ve just been drinking too much of the Twitter #whereiskate KoolAid!

I guess as soon as they told Harry and Meghan, they knew they had to announce it to the public, otherwise it would have likely been another scoop for Omid.

I agree with both of you.

I think this initial visit by H is better done solo. However, visits in the future with the GC is about a family spending time together.

If Kate was able to say anything at all she would have authorised some statement of well wishes for her father in law. It seems obvious to infer that she hasn’t because she can’t. When are they going to admit to the truth of the seriousness of her condition? They can’t distract us with drip-feeds about Charles health and nonsense attacks on Meghan forever, surely. Why has Sunak given public well-wishes for the king’s recovery but been entirely silent about the princess of wales?

Yes well done, I am saying that the pow’s health condition is much worse than they have admitted.

as for the patio, don’t be willfully stupid.

im so cringing for you.

You reckon the surgeon slipped and accidentally sewed her mouth up?

This makes the most sense. They have to go on Oprah or Netflix every time one of them wipes their arse so I imagine Meghan would love this. I can imagine the headline.. 'Lilibut and her chickens devastated by estranged King's cancer diagnosis - but nobody has asked Meg how she feels about it'

As is her total silence, the disappearance and silence of her problematic husband, and the total silence and apparent lack of inquisitiveness of the British press in a woman who has not been seen for 6 weeks where the foreign press is reporting she has been in a coma. It is like there are ten alarms and flashing red lights going off about her but everyone is ignoring them because they have been distracted by an old man blowing bubbles in the corner.

There have been a lot more threads and discussion about Kate than Charles. Evidence in MN. However the discussion always attracts the infamous MN thread police who are so unhappy with their own lives that the only pleasure they can possibly get is to chastise strangers online for speculating about the health of RF family.

The entire PR has been pretty poorly handled from the start tbh. Kudos to Charles for using his health to raise awareness but it seems he was advised not to reveal the final diagnosis. The game of "something's very wrong but we won't tell you what is" is understandable from a personal perspective but never great from a PR perspective.

Presuming that Kate is obviously not in a coma, this would be an opportunity to offer some sign of convalescence to the public. This is the same woman who stood outside of a hospital right after giving birth in full makeup and heels. If she really wanted to, she could definitely manage to give the public a single gesture even if it's a personal message or image. W&K have always handled their PR very well, giving the press (and the people) peeks into their life and their kids. Everything seems to have gone off the rails this time.

Presumably the next PR move would be some pap shots of Harry arriving in London. That would keep the press interested for a while, to see how long he's staying and who he'll be visiting.