This Monday at 6 p.m., the BBC presenter announced that cancer had been diagnosed in Charles III, crowned only nine months ago. The announcement caused shock throughout the kingdom and Buckingham insisted on sending a press release. The palace thus clarified that it was not prostate cancer, even if the tumor was spotted during a benign operation for an enlarged prostate.
“Pray for him”
This information caused astonishment and concern among His Majesty’s subjects. It is indeed a very heavy, almost bizarre silence that falls this Tuesday morning on the Westminster district, on the stones of Buckingham Palace. Louis, in front of the building, looks up in search of a lit room, as a sign that the king is indeed there, awake.
“We are all really very shocked. After his operation, a few days ago, we did not think we would have this kind of bad news,” he confided to the microphone of Europe 1. “We don’t know to what extent “It’s serious and if the cancer was caught in time. The only thing we can do is pray for him.”
Questions still unanswered
For Benjamin, this news is particularly worrying as the last months of the monarchy have been eventful. “We have just lost Queen Elizabeth II (September 8, 2022, editor’s note) and now Charles is the face of the United Kingdom. Obviously we want him to recover, because it’s worrying. We could lose two figures of the monarchy in such a short time.”
However, everyone remains in the dark. What cancer is it? Was this caught on time? Buckingham plays Buckingham, that is to say opaque. “The king remains positive”, this is the only answer to the questions left unanswered.