King Charles was “seen” on Friday. These are photos of Charles being driven from Clarence House to Highgrove. He rolled down the window so people could see that he’s “fine” after his brief hospitalization last Thursday. What’s hilarious, to me, is that Charles didn’t bother smiling or waving to the crowd or the photographers. Charles looks like my little panther kitty right before he horks on the carpet. Seriously though, Charles looks really nauseous. I guess that was the medical situation, the side effects of Charles’s cancer treatments – Charles was/is feeling quite pukey. I wonder if the first thought was “this is about his cancer treatments” but the doctors possible found that he just has a stomach bug. It might explain why the palace is mostly just shrugging and saying he’s taking the weekend off and what else can be done.
The King waved happily as he drove off to spend the weekend at his beloved Highgrove retreat yesterday, after assuring his concerned family that he was doing well. Smiling, Charles, 76, made a point of putting down his car window so he could be seen by the crowds as he left Clarence House for a long weekend in the country after being hospitalised on Thursday suffering side effects from his ongoing cancer treatment. Sources have insisted to the Mail that the incident was a ‘minor bump’ in His Majesty’s ‘very positive road to recovery’.
However, some family members – particularly his wife, the Queen – have also urged him again to ‘slow down’ in light of this latest ‘blip’. Camilla, 77, has made no secret of her frustration that he’s continued his punishing schedule throughout the last year. She has frequently told well-wishers that while her husband ‘is doing fine’ he ‘just won’t listen and do what he’s told!’
A source says: ‘She understands her husband better than anyone and knows he isn’t happy unless he is working. But she wishes, for his sake, he would just slow down a bit.’ It is a concern shared by other family members, including his son, Prince William.
Buckingham Palace has not disclosed what form of cancer he has, nor the treatment he has received. A source said: ‘It’s partly a question of his privacy and partly because we all know what happens when people start asking Dr Google about what a particular prognosis is. But it is also because the King genuinely feels incredibly positive and wants to be able to reach out with his message about living and working with the disease to people with all different types of cancers, receiving all different types of treatments, not just his own.’
Indeed, the Mail understands that His Majesty is, for the foreseeable future, a person ‘living with cancer’. He is receiving regular – mainly weekly – treatment to ensure that his personal battle has the ‘best possible outcome’, although his medical team are able to comfortably pause it as they did when he travelled to Australia and Samoa last year.
On Thursday he had undergone this routine treatment ahead of a busy afternoon of meetings when he began to feel unwell, suffering what the palace described as ‘temporary side effects’. He required a short period of observation in hospital and left The London Clinic, where he was initially diagnosed last year, by car yesterday afternoon to recuperate at Clarence House. It is understood that he enjoyed dinner with his wife and was back ‘working away as usual’ in the evening.
As I said, this reads more like “he had a nasty stomach bug” rather than “cancer treatment side effects,” but who knows. There was a particularly bad bug going around the mid-Atlantic in February, maybe it made its way to England. The Times said that Charles left Clarence House mid-morning on Friday and planned to spend the weekend in his garden at Highgrove (barfing in some bushes, by the looks of it). The Times is also leaning into the narrative that no one can get Charles to slow down, but it’s fine because he genuinely enjoys working. Which I think is true – he would be like one of those newly-retired people who ages rapidly without anything to occupy his time. Also: I guess Camilla didn’t join him in Highgrove? She was probably at Ray Mill this weekend. Camilla also didn’t go to the hospital with Charles. Divorce Watch!!
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- King Charles III is driven by car from Clarence House, his London home, along The Mall towards Buckingham Palace. The King has been seen in public for the first time since a hospital visit for side effects from his cancer treatment as he waved at well-wishers while leaving Clarence House in London this morning Featuring: King Charles III Where: London, United Kingdom When: 28 Mar 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III is driven by car from Clarence House, his London home, along The Mall towards Buckingham Palace. The King has been seen in public for the first time since a hospital visit for side effects from his cancer treatment as he waved at well-wishers while leaving Clarence House in London this morning Featuring: King Charles III Where: London, United Kingdom When: 28 Mar 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III is driven by car from Clarence House, his London home, along The Mall towards Buckingham Palace. The King has been seen in public for the first time since a hospital visit for side effects from his cancer treatment as he waved at well-wishers while leaving Clarence House in London this morning Featuring: King Charles III Where: London, United Kingdom When: 28 Mar 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Highgrove was his first home in adulthood. Going back to tie up loose ends?
I think it’s more that it’s the weekend & this is where he ALWAYS spends his weekends. This guy sticks to his routines.
The annoying thing is we’re never going to know one way or the other until and unless we get a special announcement that his health has taken a turn for the worse and he’s ‘resting peacefully’.
I can’t even drum up any well wishes for this man..
I was feeling this way too. I should have some sympathy for him, cancer is an ugly monster and I’ve lost more than one person close to me. I just can’t with him. I wish he would “see” the light and do some apologizing, ask for some forgiveness, but I don’t see that happening. I believe children are a gift that not everyone gets, I wish he did.
Same. There is no shortage of people more deserving of well wishes than this over-pampered cretin. He can move to the back of the line.
I recently heard that empathy is a glitch in the human psyche.
This concern is so shared by PW that he steps up his work schedule so that Charles won’t have to work so hard. (s)
When he’s not plotting against the sussexes. He is at some sports match or vacationing
Or trolling the internet, “for hours at a time”. Doesn’t leave much time for dear papa.
Nope I have no sympathy for him.
A more serious press would be demanding more answers about Charles’ condition, treatment and prognosis rather than being compliant stenographers.
Yep. This, ‘well, we guess he’s doing OK’ nonsense is lazy AF.
Does it matter? If he died today, the next in line is tanned, rested and ready to go. What could possibly go wrong?
Yup, Chuck looks ill. How lonely it is to have no family around you Chuck.
Meanwhile his heir is warring with his accomplished son while second wife is AWOL.
Wills must be written, legacies clearly outlined etc etc.
Given how careless they all were during the peak of Covid, no doubt that he caught one of the flues that are still going around Europe. You would think that finally being King and having cancer would convinced him to mask up more often but no.
Probably thinks he must be seen.
If only every cancer patient could retreat to their own happy place out in the country, with chefs, butlers, cleaners and gardeners tending to every whim.
So true.
To me, it’s a little ominous if he’s still undergoing active cancer treatments almost 1-1/2 years after diagnosis. That means he hasn’t responded to prior treatments.
@Meredith not necessarily. My neighbour has had 5 months of targeted chemo and the consultant has switched her to maintenance chemo for two whole years! Her treatment is now chemo every second month which she finding manageable. Her latest scans showed cancer was much diminished and her consultant hopes that maintenance chemo will result in remission.
You are saying exactly what I said— the primary treatment failed to achieve remission. Yet you phrase it as disagreement.
Re-read it @Meredith, that’s not what @Lady Digby’s saying at all. They’re two different things
I’m undergoing chemo every 2 weeks, have been on it for 8 months and will continue to be on it for the foreseeable future as the cancer I have can’t be chemo’d into remission, it will always be there. However my cancer markers have gone from 41 to 1 and that’s great news. That being said, because your immune system is compromised by chemo, you’re way more susceptible to colds, flu, etc., and I was told by my oncologist to put off getting a flu shot because it might trigger a serious immune response that could make me sicker.
I’m rooting for you Jaded.
Echoing what @Lady Digby said: my boss had lung cancer that spread to his brain. That’s just a very, very tough cancer to deal with and includes chemo & radiation. Two years after diagnosis, he’s still going to treatments & scans of one sort or another. But–by golly, he’s living his life to the fullest.
Why is it that cats will happily do their business in a litter box, but when it comes to throwing up, it’s the carpet every time? 🤔
No splashback from hoicking on a tile or wood floor.
Need something to grip with their little claws while they’re doing it. I do the same sort of thing, reflexively clutching the toilet, on the rare occasions I puke.
MD here. I would think the most likely thing that happened was that he spiked a fever. even a little stomach ailment isn’t simple in someone getting chemo.
people undergoing chemo have suppressed immunity to both viruses and bacterial illness, and a fever triggers testing blood and urine, x-ray and usually a dose of antibiotics.
most of the time admission isn’t necessary unless the person requires either isolation or ICU level care. but Charles has the capability for both at home. He 99.9% has a portacath so he can get IVs, meds, blood draws. I’m also certain that he’s got a staff of nurses and a doctor or two available to him 24/7 wherever he is.
He’s been on chemo for nearly a year (or more) so the goal is not remission, but control. Meaning what he’s got is Stage 4, isn’t curable, but manageable-for the moment.
@Maisie thank you for that explanation.
I could care less about this despicable person. Zero sympathy
While KC has treatment for cancer his health is precarious and junior should be ready, willing and able to take over his duties at short notice eg why didn’t he go to Birmingham on Friday? Last year FK was blindsided, shocked and stunned due to his dad and wife both needing treatment at the same time. Wilbur took a lot of time off to adjust to them being ill. 14 months on FK must have processed the shock and the best thing he can do to help himself and his dad, is increase his workload so KC can take things easier?
My sympathy goes to the servants who have to wait on this grump. He’s a pampered hot head when he’s well. Imagine him under the weather. Worst case of man flu ever.
Agreed. Charles had a reputation for being a spoiled brat and awful to work for before he was sick, and I can only imagine how horrible he must be to his staff now that he’s feeling poorly.
If Charles were ever going to become a good person, he would have done so by now. Like Camilla said, I think that bloody portrait of him truly captured his essence.
It’s worth noting that King Harald of Norway, a distant cousin, has been open about his health issues including bladder cancer. He has also been able to take sick leave and recover because he has a crown prince who is more than able to step in for him.