This is one of the wildest and most unexpected stories. So, in early February, King Charles publicly disclosed that he has cancer. Buckingham Palace has not said what kind of cancer, nor have they used the word “chemotherapy” when discussing his treatment. The palace only says that the king is receiving treatment in London, and when we’ve seen Charles in the past month, he looks like he’s been knocked on his ass. I’ve assumed this whole time that of course Charles has cancer, and that the cancer treatments have really taken a toll on Charles and his body. If anything, the rumors are that Charles’s cancer is much more serious than the palace has disclosed. Now Carole Malone has claimed today that Charles… does NOT have cancer?
HAS KING CHARLES GOT CANCER OR NOT?
Strange exchange between Carole & Jeremy Vine today. 👇
Carole Malone:
“He hasn’t got cancer….I can’t say what it is but I know.”Since the Royal Family/The Monarchy has a history of lying & cover ups it’s not unfair to question what they… pic.twitter.com/0Q7tj8Lad8
— Glow Lee (@GlowanneLee) March 6, 2024
“He doesn’t have cancer” and then Malone doubles-down with “I can’t say what it is but I know.” WTF??? Which brings me to People Magazine’s cover story this week, all about how the Windsors need to stop with the clownery and f–king disclose what’s going on with their health dramas.
As the details of King Charles’ cancer diagnosis and Kate Middleton’s abdominal surgery remain undisclosed, there are increasing calls for transparency within the royal family.
“Everybody feels unsettled by uncertainty, and there is too much uncertainty that is surrounding the monarchy right now,” royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week’s cover story. “Queen Elizabeth used to say, ‘I need to be seen to be believed.’ It is important for Charles and his reign for the public to know a little bit more.”
Nearly 19 months after Queen Elizabeth’s death in Sept. 2022, the stability that she brought to her family and the nation through her 70-year reign has been replaced with an appearance of vulnerability for the royals. In addition to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to step back from their roles as working members of the royal family in 2020, the recent health issues that have sidelined the King, 75, and the Princess of Wales, 42, from public duties have created an unprecedented time of fragility.
“The monarchy needs to be that anchor in times of trouble, and any sense of instability, which is inevitable when you have two of the key players out of action, is understandable,” says Bedell Smith. Adds Catherine Mayer, who authored the biography Charles: The Heart of a King: “This is massively exposing how the royal family has gone from too many people to too few in a short space of time.”
“Even though he has revealed that he has a form of cancer, that has done nothing to quell the speculation about how seriously ill he may or may not be,” says Bedell Smith. “That is not doing the monarchy any favors. He is the head of state, and there are constitutional implications.”
I’ve been generous towards Charles in recent weeks, impressed with the fact that he was somewhat upfront about his prostate and his cancer. But of course, there’s absolutely room for further disclosures and I think he should get much more specific. The question now is the extent to which Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace have been lying/obfuscating.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images. Cover courtesy of People.
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla depart London Clinic, London, England, UK on Monday 29 January, 2024 where the King was undergoing a procedure for an enlarged prostate.,Image: 841600401, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/UPPA/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
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- EMBARGOED TO 2200 FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23 King Charles III reads cards and messages, sent by well-wishers following his cancer diagnosis, in the 18th Century Room of the Belgian Suite in Buckingham Palace, London. Following the announcement of the King’s cancer diagnosis, the Correspondence Team at Buckingham Palace have received more than 7,000 letters and cards form across the world. The King has been sent a selection in his daily red box of paperwork.,Image: 849992052, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Jonathan Brady / Avalon
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- EMBARGOED TO 2200 FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23 King Charles III reads cards and messages, sent by well-wishers following his cancer diagnosis, in the 18th Century Room of the Belgian Suite in Buckingham Palace, London. Following the announcement of the King’s cancer diagnosis, the Correspondence Team at Buckingham Palace have received more than 7,000 letters and cards form across the world. The King has been sent a selection in his daily red box of paperwork.,Image: 849992053, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Jonathan Brady / Avalon
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- London, UK, 05 March 2024: King Charles III meets with Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt in the private audience room at Buckingham Palace in London.,Image: 853883512, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Aaron Chown / Avalon
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla depart The London Clinic in central London where King Charles had undergone a procedure for an enlarged prostate Featuring: King Charles III and Queen Camilla Where: London, United Kingdom When: 29 Jan 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla attend Sandrinham church the Sunday after he was diagnosed with cancer. Featuring: King Charles III and Queen Camilla Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 11 Feb 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- King Charles and Queen Camilla attending St Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham estate. Featuring: King Charles and Queen Camilla Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 18 Feb 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
It’s fascinating to watch the Monarchy fall in real time.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Charles is lying.
I actually would be surprised. He was honest with his prostate, despite being mocked and then decided to share the news of his “cancer”. Personally i think Malone is stirring the pot. Saw people speculating about kate and said you know what? Let’s speculate about Charles. Whether she decided to this by herself or if she got marching orders from KP remains to be seen.
I would also be surprised. His mother never said anything. His DIL has mentioned something vague. He’s been fairly specific. I know friends who have had chemotherapy and lost hair, and friends that didn’t—it depends on the meds and the cancer. At the moment, if this woman is the only one saying otherwise, I would still assume that KC has been relatively forthcoming considering that there doesn’t seem to be a reason to lie.
I agree, I don’t think he’s lying .. he’s just not telling it all. I don’t think Malone meant that she knew what it was other than cancer. From what I heard in that little snippet on twitter, she said “it’s not cancer” then sort of backtracks and then the interviewer says “he hasn’t told us what type it is” to which she replies “I can’t say what it is but I know.” I think she meant she knows what type of cancer. Maybe it has a name that she doesn’t associate with ‘cancer’ (ex: carcinoma) and that’s why she said he doesn’t have cancer. *finger quotes* She’s just being a know it all and creating confusion.
I think Malone got mixed up, because the prostate issue/surgery came first & they said it’s fine, it’s not cancer; then the cancer diagnosis came next. When that fellow reminded her of that, she just doubled down on her mistake. ‘I know’. What do you know & how on earth would you know? Not only do we know the palaces lie, we know those so-called royal experts lie.
As a reigning monarch, what would be worse than saying you have cancer?? “I’ve got tummy ulcers – let’s tell them it’s cancer so they don’t panic..”
I mean WTH? It makes no sense. Unless Charles has something that’s relentlessly terminal and can’t be treated – like MND – cancer is always going to be A Bad Thing.
And I don’t think it is MND or similar – I do believe they found it when they were rummaging around for his prostate issue and cancer would make sense.
Also – the prostate issue. Is Carol Malone going to pop up and tell us next that it was his kidneys but he made the choice to tell us the problem was up his a*se because it would be less embarrassing??
Yeah this struck me as her trying to save face for correcting to say he doesn’t have cancer it was his prostrate and then she doubles down and says “I know but I can’t say” — which, it seems, there’s a lot of going around in British media right now.
I know but I can’t say. Yep, nothing like that to add to the stability.
At first I thought she was corrrecting that Charles didn’t have prostrate cancer. Which he doesn’t. So if she circles back and corrects, this is the line I think she’ll take–because of all the overtalking she was misinterpreted. And why does every cow on British tv say they know what is going on behind the scenes but it never gets leaked?
Ha! I mentioned the same thing, WiththeAmerican, just above! I really should learn to read through all the comments before saying anything!
For the royal family, I guess “AIDS” might be considered worse than cancer? But that wouldn’t make sense because I’m sure they get regular health checks, and it would have been diagnosed and treated much earlier. But I agree, cancer is pretty bad, and there’s not much that is worse. For image reasons, perhaps Alzheimer’s is considered worse? But again, that is progressive and wouldn’t be a sudden emergency. Cirrhosis of the liver? Rabies? I think cancer is probably true.
AIDS would be worse and all that implies
People aren’t dying from AIDS anymore you guys. And in fact, treatment is now so advanced that folks with HIV aren’t even reaching the AIDS stage, especially if they have access to great health care. And you know Charles does. I’ve even heard of trials, in fact, where bone marrow transplant has rendered participants HIV free.
If you listen carefully, she first said: “I don’t know if he has cancer”, than she end up saying she knows but can say what he has.
These no-nothing gossipers need to pretend to know royal secrets to be booked on these TV-shows, to continue to pay their bills, whilst the holidaying/sick/striking lazy royals are absent.
Carlole Malone is pretty awful. Not sure if she knows anything. Maybe idk. But if Charles is lying he’s doing a better job of it than KP.
I’m not saying I believe Malone (god knows how much these so-called British journalists lie), but If anyone is surprised (looking at you Chloe) by any British Monarch lying about anything, you simply have not been around for the last century or you’ve been asleep. They lie, all the time. Charles lied about his affair with his now wife, remember? If they are breathing, they are lying.
You might have to give me a side-eye, too – because I don’t believe it, either. It’s not that Charles hasn’t lied before, it’s that he lies for a reason and it’s usually to cover his ass. I don’t see any logistical reason for Charles to lie about having cancer – I can’t see what good would come from it and I can see plenty of bad if the public finds out it’s a lie.
You make some good points Eurydice; but guess what, just like his mother, Charles will be long gone before the truth outs. But I’m not willing to die on this hill, so I’ll defer to you on this, especially given that the speaker is herself an inveterate liar.
I was just thinking that the monarchy unraveled pretty fast after the queens passing (raising a glass).
Bwahahahahaha, lying by omission. Of course I wouldn’t be surprised. This is a man that knowingly put his “darling” son and his little family at risk to be kpai with no care in the world. They are all friggin liars. No surprise from me if he is lying. I don’t believe he has cancer, I don’t believe those “grainy” pics were of KKKHate, I don’t believe that good for nothing son of his Pegs and his minions are telling any truths about where his wife really is. I think all of them, BP, KP, CH, Charles, Cowmilla, Peggy, are all liars and are currently lying to the masses to get sympathy.
@Sydneygirl … I’ve had the same thoughts this past week, though I don’t doubt King Charles had prostate issues and that some action on Kate’s part caused the December 28th excitement.
It seems to me this double medical emergency occurred too close to the spill by Pierce Morgan of the two ‘racist’ names. If none of this–King Charles and Kate’s dire medical crisis–is true, it would be the greatest PR move of the decade.
I don’t doubt the current situation as stated by the Palaces and British media entirely, but I do think there are intriguing beats in all of this to hint at a PR move as well.
None of us have forgotten their concerns about unborn Archie’s skin color. They still have to answer for their racism.
They were willing enough to cart out QE and prop her up when she was more elderly than KC and supposedly had cancer. Are all of them having mental breakdowns of some type that make it iffy to have them around the public?
He’s so swollen all the time I’ve often wondered about his kidney function. Maybe he’s on dialysis.
Maybe kidney failure? Cirrhosis of the liver?
He could have both? My dad had an expanding list of diseases starting with an autoimmune disease and adding things like cancer and diabetes and such as he aged.
it could be all of the above? i had chemo, and the type i had didn’t make me lose my hair or anything, but it destroyed my kidneys almost immediately. i was in stage 3 kidney disease within a month almost.
A friend of ours had to have a kidney transplant they were so damaged by the chemo he got for bladder cancer. But Chuck’s only been in *treatment* for a month or so, whereas our friend had been on chemo for months then only after another couple of years did his kidneys start failing. She’s on vile Jeremy Vine’s show and writes for the Daily Express so I wouldn’t put much credence in her so-called exclusive.
If Charles was really on death’s door would Camilla be heading off on Vacation abroad without him?
yeah i wondered that myself. these guys are really not good at the pr game
Charels went mushrooming while QEII was knocking on heavens door, so it does not surprise me if Camilla is getting spa treatments while he is getting treatments for whatever illness he has, be it cancer or something else. These people just don’t care how grave the situation is for their family members.
You see, by going off to India she’s showing everyone it isn’t that bad. Of course, you see, she wouldn’t go if it wasn’t.
Ignore the man behind the curtain everyone!
YES, she would! Please do not project your bio on to Camzilla. She did not get to be Queen by being empathetic.
Proud Mary, I believe indica was being sarcastic.
Sarcasm, Proud Mary, sarcasm….
the mind bogles, what could he have that the treatment knocks him on his ass to quote Kaiser. does that explain the sausage fingers? what else is a big killer these days?
Congestive heart failure?
Not really a lot that can be done for that, in terms of ‘treatments’.
there are a lot of treatments for congestive heart failure, it’s not all end-stage Class IV CHF with a need for frequent ER/hospital admissions and stuff
also FWIW radiation and chemotherapy are not the only non-surgical treatments for cancer. Many cancers are treated with immunotherapy/targeted molecular therapy (“precision medicine”)/hormone therapy and/or even stem cell therapy
He’s had sausage fingers for years.
There are mild conditions that lead to swelling of the fingers. I have what’s called Pernioni(sp?) syndrome , named after some Italian guy who discovered it. My fingers can look normal sometimes but the absolutely slightest difference in temperature as in going from Inside outside, leads to a very ugly swelling. It’s quite embarrassing. I hide my hands most of the time in pockets or behind a purse etc. The swelling is really bad and they look much like his, reddish because it’s a condition caused by damaged circulation and drainage. It’s not serious but it’s for life.
You should join me in trying to bring back into style wearing gloves all the time. For me it’s just because I always have cold hands. It’s definitely a more hygienic option given how germ covered many surfaces are in public, like door knobs.
The only royal medical report I truly doubt is Khate having “abdominal surgery.”
I’m not sure about this. Cancer is one of the most serious things you can have, why would they lie about it? What would be worse? He’s already willing to talk about his prostate so I’m not sure what could be more embarrassing? Weird.
AIDS from all the fooling around? Dementia as someone suggested above? Some mental health issue (not saying I would consider that embarrassing, but the royals likely would however much lip service they give it)?
I’m thinking…syphilis?
that is the only thing I could think of that would be worse than saying, I have cancer, or that one would use cancer to cover up. And he doesn’t have syphilis. This royall reporter , or whatever she is, is just silly.
For the love of….he doesn’t have syphilis or aids…if he ever did have an STD it would have been treated immediately. He’s got access to the best doctors in the country. Carole Malone is full of it, she’s on Jeremy Vine’s show and writes for the Daily Express. She’s just making sh*t up like they all do.
I don’t think Chuck has syphilis, but if he did, it would be very on-brand for the royal family historically and Chuck’s wanting to preserve bygone traditions…
Many cancers are treatable and even curable. Neurological diseases are usually incurable and often fatal. Same for endocrine issues.
Dad having dementia or something that is definitely terminal would account for Billy Idle losing his shit. That being said everyone else is going about their lives normally so …message to anyone with 60-70 something parents: they are not as healthy as you might think they are. When things go bad they go fast.
Neurocognitive disorders are slow developing and he would not be nearly as functional as he was when we last saw him, if he has advanced dementia at a terminal level. Charles is 100% not dying from one of those right now (if he has terminal anything).
AIDS would be . Because people would question his lifestyle not that’s it’s fatal but he doesn’t want that out in the public arena
You don’t lie or joke about cancer. WTF??
I honestly think this lady is just maybe… not the brightest? Like it could be leukemia and she might think that’s “not cancer” because it’s not literally called “blood cancer”. You know what I mean?
I really don’t think Chuck would come out and say he has cancer, only for it to not be the big C-word. I think the odds of it being cancer are high since he admitted to being sick at all.
I can’t imagine anyone lying about it, not even the BRF. And if he did lie . . . a public figure living on public funds? That should be whatever the equivalent to an impeachable offense is. I don’t think much of Chuck, but I’m not going to accuse him of lying in one of the worst ways imaginable unless/until there’s some evidence.
OMG, I would never lie about a potentially terminal disease. Karma can turn around and bite you on the ass for that.
Unless he’s dying of syphilis or the world’s deadliest case of gonorrhea, I can’t imagine why he’d lie about cancer.
I came onto say syphilis 😂😂
He did get Harry to drop everything and come over, but William didnt as far as we know? Weird…
Oh what a tangled web they have woven. It’s so weird. Camzilla is taking off to a spa so you would think that whatever Chuckles has is under control at this moment. Should he be more clear? Yes he should. Peg and Can’t seem to be at odds with each other. Would love to know what’s really going on there. All of this makes the monarchy look so very weak. They are unraveling quickly.
I really don’t think they’re lying about the cancer. Maybe there is something else going on, but it would be such a PR disaster if they were lying about the cancer that I just can’t really believe BP would do that – imagine the reaction next time they cut some ribbons at a new cancer wing at a hospital or the like.
Millions and millions of people have cancer. And deal with it every day. He has it and is getting treatment for it. So why is this what people are focusing on. What needs to be looked at is why William isn’t stepping up. That is the strange part of all of it. And yeah I get that Kate is incapacitated right now. But come on. He can’t be bothered to go out for three or four hours maybe three times a week and just be seen.
Yes, this looks like more smoke bombs to hide the “Where’s William?” story.
It could very well be that the cancer wasn’t the only malady that the prostate treatment process uncovered. When my dad was hospitalized with a stroke, it pulled the curtain back on a number of issues/symptoms he either undersold or just flat out didn’t tell his doctors. The other issues weren’t as serious as the stroke but did make his treatment more complicated and his chances for a full recovery more of an uphill battle.
Given his age, it would not shock me if Charles had other undiscovered issues that are either being treated alongside the cancer or will be addressed once the cancer treatments are complete.
Absolutely true, it can always be more than one thing, particularly as one ages.
I don’t know why this Carol Malone person is being taken seriously anyway. While no one doubts that BP and KP can lie about things, it makes no sense for BP and Charles to lie about cancer. He’s clearly getting treatment and the level of lies that would have to be maintained to pretend something like that is just not possible.
It looks like they’re lying about what happened to Kate though.
They lied about the Queen’s health and Philip’s health for a decade before they died. I was reminded recently that Philip also received “abdominal surgery” in the early 2010s.
They lied about the Queen Mother as well. Ironically in both her and QE’s case they covered up the fact that they did have cancer.
Exactly. No mention of cancer with QEII. I wonder if they were avoiding mentioning it because of her very advanced age. Maybe hoping she would simply fade away from old age rather than having the public speculate about what type of cancer she had. (shrug)
I repeat what I’ve said here before: When lying liars lie all the time, about everything, then they aren’t believed even if there is a chance they are telling the truth. The don’t get the benefit of the doubt anymore, because they created an extensive history of obfuscation and prevarication.
The story isn’t what’s wrong with whom, it’s that everything that they claim and every photo is now under the microscope because they have lost the faith of the public. Hard to be an anchor during difficult times if everyone is too skittish to get on the boat.
Carole Malone looks like Patsy Stone twenty years on and without the means for surgical intervention and cosmetic treatments. Maybe Malone could get Cammy to pay for a few dips and dos at that spa in India.
The Norwegian king has been on sick leave several times in the resent years. He got another 14 days after he ended up in a hospital on a private holiday in Malaysia. The crown princess is on half speed because of a chronic illness, leaving the crown prince (as acting regent) and the queen as full time working royals. No one is writing articles upon articles about the lack of royals in Norway. I think the british rota desperately wants to write about the reason Willnot is absent, but they can’t, so they’re creating storm in a tea cup to push him.
Also, they don’t actually ‘do’ anything. Yes someone has to turn up and open parliament but it’s not a 9-5 job with dire consequences if that person is absent.
Now, the rota do need to write stories and sell ‘news’. So having people absent from the narrative (and they’re clearly blocked from writing about Kate while H&M don’t have an obvious ‘storyline’ at the moment) is an issue for THEM. But not for the rest of us.
Who lies about cancer??! wth? This started to turn into a Seinfeld episode. There was a guy there who lied about having cancer for sympathy points. Would Charles do the same? Or if he is hiding the real one, would it be because it may result in abdication like dementia or something?
Yes dementia would be worse in the sense that he couldn’t be trusted with the blessed red boxes. That said I think this lady is just pot stirring.
SBS says this is all very unsettling. I’m not unsettled. She means it’s unsettling to the royalists. Fixed it for her.
I’ve been wondering if it’s something more serious because there has been so much speculation about his weird swollen hands. Like that is not normal and could be a symptom of something like heart failure or kidney failure. That said, I don’t understand why they would make up a story about prostate trouble/cancer treatment if it were really something else? Also, my FIL is the same age as Charles and had bladder cancer discovered when he went in for treatment for prostate trouble, just like the story w/Charles. He had about a month of outpatient treatments and he had some side effects but overall it wasn’t too serious. I guess seeing that firsthand made me believe what they were saying about Charles’ situation. All these weird things are just amplifying each other and it’s so much it seems impossible to all just be a series of unfortunate coincidences.
i’ve got a friend who is a cancer nurse who said the exact same thing: there are limited things you could see from a prostate procedure so it’s most likely bladder cancer
That had been my guess from the start as well: same “area”.
My friend’s father had less than 3 years from diagnosis to passing from this. Obviously, depends on KC’s stage at discovery.
Charles has been a flag carrier for homeopathic ‘medicine’ most of his life. Including lobbying the Government at the time to keep it available on the NHS when they were going to drop it. I was wondering if Harry’s dash was to try to persuade his father to take the medical treatment rather than the homeopathic one. If Charles voted for homeopathy then his time will be shorter
Omg…this is really happening.
I am of the opinion that the king, Camilla and Willie are over stressed and deal with it differently. The king is hiding, Camilla went away and the heir keeps himself under influence (alcool or/and drugs). Edward and Sophie also look stressed. Stress can have a strong negative impact on the body and mind. I believe they are hiding something really big and its about Kate. (I love conspiracy theory)
C3 looks older now at 75 than his mother did at 96
When they announced he had cancer I assumed it was prostrate cancer as that was why he went in in the first place. Maybe not.
I was watching a doctor talk about this when it was first announced and he said the most common forms they find during prostate surgery is bladder or colon cancer. So my guess is colon or maybe rectal cancer and they don’t want to say. However isn’t this the same woman who busted William’s team for leaking that Harry called Charles for his birthday? So sounds like she has an “in” at KP. Plus if Charles is faking cancer which would be wild, then that might explain why William is staying away from him. Or, maybe they are trying to force BP’s hand and say what’s going on.
When we were first told about KC prostate I immediately thought this is a lie, they’re deflecting…. i thought Willie battered Kate and that’s her red line and she’s outta there and KC is covering, his ego is so big he thought if he told the public the king is sick nobody would be looking at KP…. but then there was so much weirdness. I’ve been flipping from, she had a stroke, to W hurt K, to divorce negotiations. Now we have Malone saying it’s not Cancer and I know she’s hardly reliable but I’m back to my first theory. I think W hurt Kate after Xmas and she fled to Ma Middleton with the kids. I think both palaces know this and everything that happened since then has been to cover it up.
I’ll be back tomorrow with a new theory!
Agreed
That’s what I suspect happened too. It makes the most sense, and explains why Willam is not being seen with his father. Why Camilla has a Cheshire Cat smile. Why Carol never visited her daughter after that “abdominal surgery”. She wasn’t at the hospital. And why the kids aren’t being seen either (I sincerely hope they didn’t see anything).
They really have to use photos of Kate touching her stomach everytime now uh ?
To be fair that would be most of her photos.
He’s head of state the people should know everything about his diagnosis. The King of Norway is sick and the Palace has been open about everything including how much it cost to fly him back home from Malaysia.
Could be anything, MS or Parkinson’s, kidneys, pancreas.
They probably think a neurological disease is worse than lying about cancer.
I never believed Kate had surgery, but I do believe he has cancer. Who knows.
Did they say they discovered the cancer during his prostate surgery, or did we all assume that? Because I can’t see how MS or ALS or Parkinson’s could be discovered during surgery. There’d be some blood tests, sure, but MRIs or other imaging of that par of the body isn’t going to get you there. Hm.
Is Carole Malone accusing the king of lying to the public about his cancer diagnosis? Do tell more, Carole.
Someone on twitter said it’s been in the Greek media that C3 has Pancreatic Cancer.
Why should anybody have to be “transparent” about their private medical issues?
Because they’re “head of state” and public servants living a “life of service “ paid for by taxpayers? People don’t need nitty gritty details but they are owed honesty and accuracy. At least IMO.
You wouldn’t be required, Diane. But a man who’s lived his entire life off the public dime, and now is the supposed head of state, should be transparent.
Just like anyone filing a disability claim has to explain their illness/disability, these people are telling the public they are calling off work for 9 months, in Kate’s case. Unknown in Charles’.
Meanwhile they’re still getting paid hundreds of millions by the taxpayer. So yes, they have to be transparent. Again, no one is asking for their medical files.
Heads of State always do. There’s been a huge issue lately in the US with the Secretary of Defense not informing anyone–least of all, his boss, the President of the United States–that he was in the hospital. There are certain obligations that come with those privileged positions.
As for us unprivileged folks, we have to tell our bosses we’ll be away for some time, due to surgery & recovery. And when we return to work, we have to supply a note from the doctor saying we’re fit to return to duty–or light duty, as the case may be. Which also provides confirmation that we were indeed away from work due to health reasons while receiving that paid time off. See the difference?
Most of the first line colon cancer chemotherapy’ treatments actually don’t cause hair loss, but do have other side effects such as rashes, and hand/foot syndrome (swelling, soreness, etc), and neuropathy.
I’m not sure about other cancers’ chemo side effects (I had early stage CRC, so that’s why I know about colon cancer), but I’ve met several cancer patients and survivors who never lost their hair in spite of chemotherapy, but had enormously painful/swollen hands and feet due to their treatments
Many bladder cancer treatments involve placing drugs directly into the bladder, rather than giving them systemically. In this case as well, hair loss would not be expected.
Depends on whether the cancer has invaded the bladder muscles and other adjacent areas. First line of treatment (which I’m getting in 2 weeks BTW) is removal of bladder entirely as well as adjacent organs and creation of a pouch and stoma from a section of lower intestine. That being said, I can imagine Chuck having chemo placed in his bladder which would mean no external symptoms like hair loss, etc. It wouldn’t surprise me if this is exactly what’s happening.
Sending strength to you @Jaded… I know from experience that it’s no picnic.
I 99.5% believe the Spanish reporter who said Kate was in an induced coma after her surgery, but I 100% do not believe Charles is lying about cancer. It’s possible something else has been diagnosed that hasn’t been released. I with People and every other tabloid would quit dragging Harry into the rf self-created crisis. He told you about them in Spare, they have shown you who they are, believe them.
I think Carole Malone is 100% been “tipped off” by KP and/or the Middleton clan to start wild internet conspiracies in order to take the heat off Kate, her dumb photo op and the whole cancelling trooping shemozzle.
Yep, it’s pretty big to accuse The King of lying. She should be thrown into the Tower.
Just a reminder that chemo isn’t the only treatment for cancer, so the King not losing his hair doesn’t mean anything. My dad’s been treated for years with shots and radiation, and to outward appearances he seems perfectly healthy.
Exactly. And radiation puts you on your arse which would account for him not kinging right now.
What’s next with these “experts”?
I know! He will be diagnosed with some weird, Romanian malady which turns him into a vampire. Gene passed on from his ‘relative’ Vlad the Impaler. Didn’t he have/had a place in Romania where he went?
I think that’s equally plausible as what some of the ‘royal experts’ are spewing.
Oooh, and he has that funny rat-face pointy nose and stick-out ears. You may be on to something! >;-)
If he had a neurological disease, I think they’d just carry on as normal until it became obvious. I don’t think they’d substitute another illness/disease for it.
Cancer isn’t something you use to hide another illness. This is all deeply weird.
I agree. I think this Carole person is just speaking out of her butt and not thinking before she talks. Shows how reliable all these royal commentators are when they just say whatever they want
I mean, what if whatever illness he has is genetic, and now we have to worry about future kings having it?
Also, if he knows he’s terminal, people might get upset with him for Camilla. Nobody wants her to be queen.
Camilla is not in the line of succession; she’s just the consort. William is next, and after him, George (for whom a regent would be appointed, which would be quite the fascinating drama in itself).
my tinfoil tiara theory is that “something happened” at the end of December and that Kate is out of commission because of it, while Charles also has serious health issues going on, and William is losing his shite because of it all.
whether or not William directly caused Kate’s present crisis, we all know he’s been terrible to her for years, so one way or another whatever it is is pretty much his fault. and we do know he physically assaulted Harry.
I’ve been bored with the royal drama for a while now but this is all so bad it’s reeling me back in!
It really is a dumpster fire over there. They’re lying, either directly or by omission. Why even mention Harry and Meghan in this at all. It’s been 4 years and instead of adjusting, they keep ramping up attacks on them to try to distract from William’s utter failure to step up. They really are incompetent and horrible.
OK I will keep this short and sweet as my previous post disappeared.
All adults know, that before you have any procedure at a hospital, BLOOD tests are taken!!!!! THINK
Omg, are you implying Charles is pregnant?!!! 😜
I kid, I kid. Unfortunately I’m incapable of thinking. My husband, like yourself, actually definitely does have cancer and it’s awful and I haven’t gotten more than a few hours sleep in several days.
I’m going to assume whatever Charles has, it’s serious. BP may be brave and foolhardy enough to lie to the public but I think they’re only fudging some details and not telling a whopper that is materially different in scope and potential outcome from the cancer story.
Hum… I think I see what you mean. And that’d make it like cancer…
Shock!
Well, are we back to paternity tests then? That would be interesting – imagine it would turn out that this assumed australian lovechild of him and Cam got proven. Something that would for sure throw Will & Kate (and the line of throne) off the track, and Harry had to come over to receive the latest family news.
Please know, I am not really thinking it through. But enjoying the thought.
Leukemia is a broad term for cancers of the blood cells. The type of leukemia depends on the type of blood cell that becomes cancer and whether it grows quickly or slowly. Leukemia occurs most often in adults older than 55, but it is also the most common cancer in children younger than 15.
Mary Pester, I think he knew about the cancer before his surgery. I suspect that’s where you’re going with the blood tests.
Midnight@theOasis, I’ve known one other person who (in his 70s) was diagnosed with Leukemia. I was surprised to discover that is, if not common, not hugely surprising. The person I knew lived just a very few weeks after diagnosis. To my knowledge, that isn’t treated with chemo is it?
Depends on the type of Leukemia. If it’s AML (Acute Myeloid Leukemia) there isn’t really time to start treatment if you catch it too late because the countdown to self-destruct has started. My mom at 69 went in for stomach pain and got an antacid, 10 days later we finally got her to agree to go to the ER and about 17 hours after that we were pulling life support. The white blood cells just exploded and gave us no chance to treat. Absolutely brutal and it felt like watching a car accident in slow motion.
I’m hoping for Charles sake it isn’t AML, but leukemia being foremost on my mind, it does seem to be a real possibility. The only truth I know is you can’t trust BP or KP ever.
BINGO and we have a winner, don’t we midnight @the oasis!!and @Schrodingers Kate ,i hope your husband is getting all the help he can, and you are getting some support. It’s a very lonely illness, and I’m sure you understand what I mean by that. 3am till dawn is my worse time, and @saucy& it depends on the kind lovey.
A. M. L is one of the most common and chemo can depend on other factors health wise
What’s worse than cancer?
@ELSA, AML can be, but remember “cancer” is a word that covers many variants of a terrible disease
My father died somewhat recently from CMML and it is a ravaging illness with no cure. Survival typically ranges from a few months to a couple of years.
Both AML and CMML are types of cancer.
Mary Pester, you and midnight@theoasis, think alike.
For a British royal? Porphyria?
Lying about it!
Saving face, perhaps? It is a crazy coincidence BOTH of the named ‘Royal Racists’ are having these health issues at the moment, non? Could it all be a bid to illicit public sympathy….? I certainly wouldn’t put it past them!!
I always enjoy opportunities to compare the BRF to other European royal families because the BRF always comes out looking bad. Right now King Harald V of Norway is also having health issues and the difference in detail is clear.
There’s no reason to lie about Charles having cancer. To get Harry to come home to the UK? Umm…no. Charles is perfectly fine with Harry living in the States. If he wasn’t, Frogmore would still be Harry & Meghan’s. I’m more inclined to believe Carole either misspoke or doesn’t know that his condition is considered a type of cancer. I’m being charitable.
Mad cow!
😂. Is Camilla his Mad Cow?!
I have always thought the Royal Family are secretive about their personal health issues so I don’t think either Kate or Charles are going to disclose their illnesses or whatever. Just my opinion.
“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the lies of our lives.” As the Monarchy Turns.
Meh. This has the feel of no Royals are out doing anything right now and we HAVE to talk about something, to me.
Shots fired across the bow from KP to BP? What a mess. It’s as if no one’s in charge. The question is not just whether he’s lying, because, as I said above, they lie all the time. The issue is, who tipped off Malone? Seems like a real war brewing between the two palaces.
With these mouthpieces you have to know who they’re loyal to. Camilla and Charles or William? Is Carol Malone on any camp?
Urgh. Jeremy Vine did a dreadful job here. I’m in the US and only know him from Radio 2 so I’ve never seen this show before but he should have stopped the conversation and pushed her on what exactly she was saying. To just shrug off “he doesn’t have cancer” is crazy. He needed to make her clarify exactly what she meant.
In his late 60s, my dad had bladder cancer that was caught extremely early. He had regular scans and any time they detected growth, they went in and zapped it with precision lasers. After about 4 years, they found prostate cancer and he elected to have a radical prostatectomy. Several more years went by, bladder cancer popping up every now and then, and zapped as needed. Healthy as a horse, still played basketball and mowed his yard. Around age 72, they found lung cancer (nonsmoker) that quickly spread to his ribs, bones, brain and liver. He had the great good luck to be a match for immunotherapy – 4 pills a day. After 6 months, no cancer whatsoever showed up on his pet scans except for in the brain. He had brain radiation and lived until age 77, when the third brain radiation caused dementia and the cancer spread to his spinal fluid.
My point? Amazing new tech and innovations in cancer therapy. If my average, middle-class dad had access to treatment that prolonged his life by a decade, I’m sure the King of England is getting the absolute latest and best. I’m not planning his funeral just yet.
Wow your dad went through a lot , he was a very tough man .
Carole Malone’s mouth runs away from her. She stopped listening halfway through what Jeremy Vine was saying & jumped in with her answer. The Palace has said Charles has cancer but NOT Prostate cancer. They haven’t disclosed what else it might be. Having gone as far as to confirm that he has cancer, they really should say what kind of cancer it is & the prognosis. Same for Kate Middleton, there should be transparency around her mysterious hospital stay and what is going on with her, otherwise it leaves the door open for anyone to come up with their own diagnosis.
I think that this all reflects what has happened with the current generation of the Royal Family. Charles used the press to get his point across, either to rubbish Diana or rehabilitate Camilla. William uses the Press to score points off his brother, and they all used the press to damage the reputation of Meghan. What that has created is a feeding frenzy amongst a certain consumer of tabloid trash, we’ve all come across them in the comments’ pages. They are virulently tribal, & they think they all have a right to make demands of the Royal Family that no-one else in recent history have thought they can do. They demand to see Harry’s children, they demand to see his visa application, they demand that firms drop their association with them. This is all fine & well if it accords to what the Palaces want, but these creatures are now fully formed & turn on their creators when they don’t provide the information that they think they deserve to know.
Prince Philip, a man wise to the ways of the world, said that once the mystery of the Royal Family was breached, they would be in trouble, he also said that the Monarch would be destroyed by its sycophants. This is where we are. The Mystery of Monarchy has gone, the peasants are demanding that they perform (where are those children, where is Kate), & if they don’t get what they want, they’ll turn.
Sadly, they brought it all on themselves with their use of the media to score points & settle scores, & the purchase of troll armies to boost their image. They are woefully ill-equipped to deal with the Machiavellian schemes of their advisors, I’m not even sure they recognise them.
I got it!
Kate donated a kidney to Charles!
Explains her “abdominal surgery”, Billy’s falling apart, Cam who wants nothing to do with it….
There! Now I shall go to bed. I’m exhausted.😁
Why on earth would anyone lie about having cancer? I think Charles has got the balance right at the moment by informing people of his diagnosis and acknowledging that he is cutting on public duties to receive treatment. Although he is a public figure, he is entitled to some privacy over medical matters. However, I do think some progress reports over the next few months would be a good PR exercise as the way KP has bungled updates on Kate’s condition has been a masterclass in PR failure.