King Charles has cancer

[CormorantStrikesBack]

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

I love all the people who claim to not be able to stand the RF but who just love the drama and get so involved in everything about them.

Who would you all gossip about with such wroth if we had none eh? Whose health would you speculate about all day?

So bizarre.

I think some on here are too young so don't know about her saying these things herself. It's weird getting older because you see everything that happened in the RF's past being swept under the carpet over time, and yet you remember it all very clearly. She said herself that he said that she was getting chubby and she immediately went off and binged and threw up. I don't think we can blame him for her MH, but what he said was triggering for her.

To be honest it is only King Charles I can cope with. All the rest I do not give a flying fig about.

I should have added, I don’t suppose all the sordid publicity about Prince Andrew helped, either.

The poor old Queen had an awful lot of family-related grief to cope with not long before she died.

Plenty of us remember it bur we also recall the other things Diana said, like she’d been actively bulimic since 15. She made many accusations against Charles, and time has proven that some of them were a bit suspect. Not unlike her own son.

If you read the post @MrsDanversGlidesAgain was referring to, it is dripping with irony.

I think some are making the mistake that just because PR is a consideration that means it’s the only consideration or the #1 consideration. And therefore that somebody has made a mistake if PR has been or should have been relegated to positions #2 or #3.

Eg for Kate she has chosen her privacy over clarity of message. That’s not a huge b—lls up from her PR team, it’s a personal choice. The fact that people are speculating online what’s wrong with Kate is not her or her team’s fault.

Secondly with people claiming Harry is damned if he does & damned if he doesn’t - only if good publicity for himself is the only end goal. Only if you think the fact he’s gone and confused the King’s more hopeful public messaging about his own health and made people think the King is dying because his estranged son has played the doting son and dropped everything to heroically dash to his bedside (non-accidental parallels with the family dashing to HMTQ’s actual deathbed)… only if you think all that’s a better outcome than H not getting his opportunity for good publicity. Harry could easily said he’d be bringing his whole family to visit in spring or summer when the King is feeling better, or ya know, a Zoom call.

If you read the post @MrsDanversGlidesAgainwas referring to, it is dripping with irony

No it isn't Lochroy. You're wrong.

I agree I don't think the rest of the family will have much to do with them, but courtiers? They leak everything and anything.

People keep saying that. But the two undisputed biggest stories since the Coronation are Charles’ cancer and Kate’s health condition. These are huge “scoops” in newspaper terms.And no-one breathed a word, despite the large number of Palace staff who would have known.

Roussette
You've hit the nail on the head here:

They deserve their privacy at times like this, not ghoulish rumours

At the end of the day, they're human beings and someone's family and friend. It surprises me how many people seem to express their deep concern shortly before adding a theory, or a story, or a complaint that they've not been given more details. Family should be able to visit unwell relatives without having to deal with what some random strangers think.

Like you I'm not a royalist and I'm also fairly willing to share opinions about media appearances and public statements, but I don't buy the idea that they're public property and should have the details of their personal lives and health picked apart the way that's happened recently. It's in very poor taste in my opinion.

I can recall a lot of negativity about her too, lots of people didn’t like her. But when she died all this changed to how she was a saint and everyone saying they loved her all along.

It’s good she has a decent legacy, but it’s funny how time warps memories. I have zero feelings on her one way or the other, same as most of them really. Met Charles, he was nice and he’s done lots of good environmental stuff. But no feelings on any of them really. Be nice if they healed their family drama though.

I would still disagree with you in the frail part. He will struggle on chemotherapy- sadly!

The 'poor old queen' lived through her uncle's abdication and very soon afterwards WW2. Stresses that would have made the cares you highlight seem trivial.

What does that have to do with anything from a medical point of view??

I find this a bit confusing tbh. If I was told that a parent had cancer damn right I'd take a flight out to be with them (I think the only reason some people wouldn't is because they couldn't afford it - either monetarily or because their work wouldn't allow them). As for him being seen as a dashing hero - how the hell do we know that's how he sees himself? That's the spin the press put on it and frankly do you believe everything they say? How do you know that he doesn't care about his dad? His book is dripping with the desire for his father's love - but most people haven't read it, apart from the versions written by the tabloids.

Exactly this!

But at least her immediate family was united and supportive. Her children and her, not so much, and their children not at all.

It means that just because someone looks older than their true age, it doesn't mean they are not healthy.

Yes, and Harry not being allowed wear the medals he actually did earn

Sorry , genuinely want to know , which of the medals Harry earned, was he not allowed to wear?

Harry could easily said he’d be bringing his whole family to visit in spring or summer when the King is feeling better, or ya know, a Zoom call.

Really? So a man's father has been diagnosed with cancer but he shouldn't visit him in case people like you think he is giving out a message to the public that he shouldn't. How mean.
And do you know what? Just say he did a zoom call only, or planned to visit April/May... then something happened... he would be absolutely annihilated not just on here but in the media.
He is quite entitled to visit his father and it is a private matter between the two of them.

You really don’t think that all the mudslinging by H and M, and the sordid publicity splashed all over the newspapers about her own son, would have been extremely upsetting?

You must have some very odd ideas, that’s all I can say.
She was very young during the abdication and WW2, and while of course they would have been very worrying, they would not have been deeply, personally hurtful.
I’d have thought that the vast majority of people would be able to understand the difference.

I had private ante-natal care for all three of my children. I saw my consultant at each appointment, and he delivered the babies. I suspect I may not be in the same part of the world, as we don't get many soap stars here.

You were still under the care of your consultant, even if you saw a member of his team.

I am sure you are right about the King - wouldn't it be a bit weird otherwise?

I think the poster is confused, Jeff. He was allowed to wear his medals. No one can stop him doing that. It was the uniform he wasn’t allowed to wear. Same as the veterans at the cenotaph.