King Charles has been through a lot in recent years. From Harry and Meghan stepping down from their royal duties and the ongoing feud with them, to Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis and his own cancer battle, the King has faced an array of challenges.
While his battle with cancer is ongoing, his return to royal duties and even plans for overseas visits speak volumes about his improved health.
Although the Palace hasn’t revealed the exact type of cancer the king was diagnosed with, Laura Lee, chief executive of the cancer support charity Maggie’s–which Queen Camilla is president of, said many cancer treatments take a lot of time.
“It’s very common for treatment to be ongoing for very long periods of time, as is the treatment that the Princess of Wales went through, which is an intense period of treatment over a year, and then it comes to a point where it’s on an end, and she’s on that recovery from some of the impacts of her treatment,” Lee told Sky News.
“So we’ve got immunotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery, hormone therapy. There are all sorts of different treatment modalities. And so it’s not surprising at all.”
She continued: “What we’ve heard from our centre visitors, it’s been good that they haven’t just shone a light on one specific cancer type, but they’ve shone a light on cancer as a whole, and that there’s varying treatment and varying impacts and varying different ways of navigating the challenges that cancer bring. And I think that approach has been much more effective and positive for the cancer community. I know firsthand that everyone is so grateful to them for doing that.”
According to the Palace, the King and Queen are planning a royal visit to Italy in April where they will meet Pope Francis. Further, the visit will be “celebrating the strong bilateral relationship between Italy and the United Kingdom,” as per the Palace.
In the past, King Charles had visited Italy 17 times, but this would be his first as the head of the monarchy.
However, no matter how much the public is looking forward to seeing the King taking more royal duties, royal expert Daniela Elser believes that his cancer diagnosis is still giving the Palace a headache.
Elser made a comparison between two photos of the King taken at a time difference of four years. One taken recently, and the other one in 2020, in Jerusalem, Israel. She wrote the photos showed the “unmistakable” difference in King Charles’ appearance, which is “painfully hard to ignore.”
“The King might have been all smiles at church in late January, but Buckingham Palace is today facing down a previously unheard of, never-considered royal scenario — how to keep Crown Inc going in the time of an aging, cancer-battling monarch who is increasingly rattling around the Palace, stranded and with fewer than ever people to call on.
“As [King Charles] ages and as he battles cancer, he has only very few working members of the royal family left he can rely on and delegate to in order to help him shoulder the load,” Elser added.
The good thing is that despite his cancer, King Charles is staying positive.
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