While Buckingham Palace has just announced that Charles III was affected by cancer, the question of the administration of the kingdom is being raised by the British media. Who will take over the king’s duties during his treatment?
Buckingham Palace has just announced on Monday February 5 that the King Charles III suffered fromcancer. The disease was discovered during examinations relating to a prostate operation carried out last month. Little additional information has been released about the nature of this cancer, or even to what extent the king is physically impacted at this time. On the other hand, we confirmed from the outset that it would continue to “take care of state affairs and paperwork as per usual”. Despite everything, doctors are of the opinion that William and Harry’s father is withdrawn from his public activitieshe who had embarked on an international journey in the fall.
Obviously, the question ofinterim immediately arises across the Channel. Who will be able to carry out the functions of Charles III throughout the time his treatment will last? Several information about the already well-defined protocol had been clarified here and there in the press, at the time of the king’s last operation; but until now it had not been revealed who could replace him during his public appearances.
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The defining role of Camilla Parker-Bowles
Journalist Camilla Tominey (Telegraph) responds and confirms that the two main personalities associated with this interim would be Camilla Parker-Bowlesthe queen, as well as the Prince WilliamTHE first in line to the British throne. “Queen Camilla can of course take care of these commitments, but constitutionally, due to the line of succession, Camilla is not of royal blood. So when it comes to matters constitutional, it is William who will have to fulfill them”she indicates to Nine News.
What’s more, it is confirmed that both are, in reality, part of a group of people authorized to replace the king in the event of temporary impossibility for him to ensure the full exercise of his powers. These state councilors are thehusband or thewife of the monarchas well as the first four people over the age of 21 in the order of succession to the throne. In other words: Camilla Parker-Bowles, Prince William, Prince Harry, Prince Andrew and Princess Beatrice. However, as our colleagues at Timesuniquely “active members of the royal family will be called upon to act as state advisors”, therefore excluding the last three. The diary states that King Charles III would have preferred his brother and sister Anne And Edward.
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Kate Middleton’s children soon to be associated?
THE Times further explains that the protocol currently provides for the gradual replacement of Andrew, Harry and Beatrice, by the children of Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton, also suffering from health problems, once they will be adults. To name them, it is the prince Georgeof the princess Charlotte and the prince Louisrespectively aged 10, 8 and 5 years old to date.
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