This is the announcement that panicked the British (and not only that).
Buckingham Palace announced, in a press release published this Monday, February 5, that King Charles III was suffering from cancer.
If the nature of this disease has not yet been revealed, the British royalty has demonstrated
“unprecedented transparency”
, as stated by Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre, guest in the program “C à vous » this Tuesday evening.
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The editorial director of
Point de vue
magazine , specializing in royal families, was keen to underline the exceptional nature of this press release.
“It’s a total break, we’ve never seen that before.
[...] It's really a change and an important change.
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Whether it was Queen Elizabeth II's bone marrow cancer or her father King George VI's lung cancer, both had been kept silent by Buckingham Palace.
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A cursed king
But in this case, fate seems to be against King Charles III.
After waiting nearly fifty years to ascend the throne, and only seven months after his coronation, he found himself suffering from a serious illness.
“They say that “Charles” is a very bad name for a reign [...] we say to ourselves that it is still a little cursed.
He has a succession of difficulties.
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“What is very favorable is that everyone around the king says that he is very combative, optimistic and that the cancer was caught early
,” says the royalty specialist to Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine before adding: “for the moment they are very reassuring, there is no power vacuum.
He continues to receive these famous red boxes, to have his weekly meetings with the Prime Minister.
However, one thing seems to worry Adelaide de Clermont-Tonnerre: the sudden arrival of her son, Prince Harry, from Los Angeles.
“I find it a relatively alarming sign.
It came very quickly.
So he learned about it a little longer than us since the king personally called his children but he comes very quickly,”
she insists, mentioning the fact that the father and son had not spoken the word for a very long time.
“They barely saw each other on coronation day.
Harry didn't see his father when he came to England this summer for the tabloid trials.
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