Imagine a transparent canvas supported by a metal frame, which covers the thorax and head of its sleeping owner while infusing him with oxygen.
This is the curious device that King Charles III would use during his sleeping hours.
In her biography
My Mother and I
,
published
on Thursday February 15 and devoted to the relationship between Elizabeth II and her son, Ingrid Seward reveals that the sovereign has been using an oxygen tent for several years.
A device that would allow him to combat his sinus problems – but would have aroused his mother's incomprehension.
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“Never lie in”
“The Queen never understood Charles' pampered lifestyle and found it rather disconcerting, as he is not a selfish man by nature.
But the fact of having seen, throughout his life, his accession to the throne delayed, often prevented him from giving consideration to others,” writes the royal correspondent.
Before adding: “He never sympathizes when people have trivial illnesses and fights his own sinus problems by sleeping in an oxygen tent.
For him, fatigue or waking up are not acceptable excuses for missing even an hour of work, and he will never sleep in on a Sunday, even if he is not feeling well. »
An invested monarch, who nevertheless had to suspend his official obligations after the announcement of his cancer on February 5.