King Charles III suffers from cancer, discovered during his prostate operation around ten days ago, the British royal family announced Monday evening in a press release. “During the recent operation for benign prostatic hypertrophy, a distinct problem was noted” and “subsequent tests identified a form of cancer,” explains the palace in a press release, specifying that the sovereign thus “today began a program of regular treatments, during which doctors advised him to postpone his public activities.” However, he will continue “to take care of state affairs and administrative tasks as usual”.
“It’s a shock for the British”
An announcement which caused a real shock wave in the kingdom. “It is a shock for the British. The House of Commons interrupted its debates for an official communication and to wish a speedy recovery to the king. When the king suffers, it is the whole country which attracts its attention”, affirmed the royal family specialist, Stéphane Bern, at Dimitri Pavlenko’s microphone Tuesday morning.
“We know that he is in rather good shape, that he has a positive spirit, and that he can continue to exercise his royal prerogatives, that is to say that he can receive the Prime Minister, he signs laws and official documents”, reassured the presenter of Historically yours specifying that the arrival of his youngest son Harry, who resides in the United States, remains worrying.
An unusual press release
But the Buckingham Palace press release is unusual, according to Stéphane Bern. “There is a press release on the king’s health, which is both transparent since it is announced that the king has cancer, but which is always opaque because we do not say what form of cancer he is suffering from, if it “It has nothing to do with the operation he underwent on his prostate for an enlargement.”
Since his coronation, Charles III has endeavored to give a more modern image of the British monarchy. And revealing your cancer is one of them. “He had already started with the prostate, saying that he suffered from an enlargement because many men suffer from it and he said that it could have an influence on people getting screened. Which was the case. The NHS, the British public health service, was inundated with calls following the announcement of the king’s prostate problems,” observed Stéphane Bern.
The announcement of the king’s cancer is also a way for Charles III to change the public’s view of the disease. “He wanted it to change the public’s view of cancer and that we perhaps needed to have a more positive vision, more friendly with all the people who suffer from cancer in the world,” he said. he concluded at the microphone of Europe 1.