Charles cancer update

[PrettyFlyforaMaiTai]

Charles’ cancer treatment will continue into next year

”his treatment has been moving in a positive direction and as a managed condition the treatment cycle will continue into next year" according to palace sources.

I don’t mean to be a negative Nelly but this doesn’t seem as positive as they’re trying to make out.

news.sky.com/story/kings-cancer-treatment-will-continue-into-next-year-sky-news-understands-13276684

Let's face it, any of us could claim to have heard something on the bbc once, which no one else on Mumsnet heard. But it takes a special brand of hubris to bang on about it having any relevance or significance. The fact is that there has never been an official announcement that the late Queen had cancer of any type.

You'll never see UK media reporting on it, they're banned from saying most things about the Royal family.

If you search "queen bone cancer" you'll see the results from the New York Post, Politico.eu, The Economic Times, CNN, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CBS News etc.

I doubt that both Boris and Giles would say it if it wasn't true. It's a bit of a random thing to make up. Plus several genuine Australian media outlets were reporting on bone issues prior to all this.

Of course there's not going to be an official statement from the palace when the queen was so secretive about her health. Why do you think that suddenly the royals are much more open about their respective health issues now she's gone. They haven't all coincidentally all got sick with one thing or another for the first time in their lives, it's just now they're allowed to talk about it.

"Old age" isn't a cause of death in and of itself, there's something that actually happened to cause death, whether it's heart failure, blood clot, something else. It just sounds like what people want to hear.

Oh good heavens no of course Boris would never say something that isn't true

You'll never see UK media reporting on it, they're banned from saying most things about the Royal family.
If you search "queen bone cancer" you'll see the results from the New York Post, Politico.eu, The Economic Times, CNN, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CBS News etc.

Unless you can point to a story published internationally definitively stating the Queen’s health condition, rather than speculating about it, then you’ve misunderstood the position.

UK papers aren’t “banned” from publishing things about the Royal Family. They are however bound by press publishing guidelines which mean they don’t publish speculation that cannot be proved, particularly when it relates to sensitive matters, like health (which is “special category personal data” under the GDPR laws for you, me, and everyone including members of the Royal Family).

Overseas publications aren’t bound by UK laws on this, obviously, and also probably more willing to take risks about what they’ll publish on the basis that it’s less likely they’ll be sued when they are not based in the UK. Less likely doesn’t mean never though - William and Kate successfully sued a French magazine for breach of privacy for publishing topless photos of Kate for example.

This is what Boris said re: late Queen, FWIW:

’I had known for a year or more that she had a form of bone cancer, and her doctors were worried that at any time she could enter a sharp decline’.

Oh well it must be true then 🙄

The Princess of Wales looks pretty great to me.
Haggard? Seriously?

I posted a very similar pic midway through this thread asking the 'haggard' posters to explain what they meant. None of them have returned to do so. Funny that.

If that's haggard, I'll take it! Nothing wrong with looking your age either.

She's absolutely beautiful and radiant. I can only presume the 'haggard' posters have issues 😕

She doesn't look haggard at all and neither is she absolutely beautiful although beauty is in the eye of the beholder. She is an average looking woman with unlimited money at her disposal so is able to make the best of what she has been given.

You are spectacularly missing the point.

My point is not whether I believe what I heard. My point is not whether what I heard is true or not.

The point is that, on that day, some things were actually said on air, and some of us remember hearing them. Some posters here were aggressively attacking another poster for making that point, and I was defending her ( and seem to have become their target myself now instead).

Average 🫣 would love to see who you hang out with!

A snippet of no consequence might have been said that day but I think most can say with pretty much 100% certainty that neither the BBC nor ITV made an announcement re the Queen having died from a certain cancer. No one, bar the poster plus you defending her think so

But that poster is pretty adamant that they did hear the announcement.

There was no announcement.

That doesn't mean it happened though does it? Probably speculation she heard, there was no announcement on mainstream news outlets

She sez it was on BBC or ITV she heard it.

Edited to add: I shouldn't have used the word "announcement" because that implies formal confirmation.

I'm going to leave this now - I was trying to defend an OP who was being personally attacked for reporting somerhing she clearly remembers.

She can ‘sez’ what she wants, doesn’t make it true.

😆

This is what the poster actually wrote when asked how they thought they knew what Queen Elizabeth died from:

Because it was announced on the news after her death and she had the same sort that ended my Mums's life. It was no longer a secret once she died.

She was obviously talking utter bollocks

You do presumably realise that people can pretend and make things up on an anonymous forum?
Just because you think she genuinely remembers something doesn't make it true.

They can also just be wrong. She may have thought she heard an ‘announcement’, but she clearly didn’t. She may have heard some speculation, which she misinterpreted. The doubling down on the ‘announcement’ is just bizarre.

Do share your superior knowledge.

I think you're talking shit but I don't know him personally probably any more than you do.

He mostly seems pretty affable in public!

Well beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I most certainly don't believe she is "average looking".

You need to go to Specsavers.