Royal correspondent Rebecca English accompanied Prince William this week on a visit to a center for homeless people.
One of the Prince of Wales's lifelong commitments.
The journalist then notices the emaciated silhouette and hollow features, which she puts down to fatigue: “He seems to be carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders.
» We now know the nature of the burden weighing on the heir to the throne.
And it is twofold.
His father first.
Suffering from cancer, King Charles III, aged 75, is treated with chemotherapy once a week.
Doctors have recommended that he cancel his public engagements until further notice, although the sovereign continues to fulfill his constitutional duties at his home in Sandringham.
He is counting on his son William, 41, to carry out a certain number of protocol missions, inaugurations or visits by foreign dignitaries in his place.
But here is this battle plan of the father and son turned upside down by a new misfortune.
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