If 1992 was Queen Elizabeth II’s annus horribilis – or ‘horrible year’ – then 2024 will most certainly be the one King Charles III chooses to forget.
In February, just nine months after his Coronation, Buckingham Palace shared the sobering news that His Majesty had an unspecified form of cancer.
The discovery was made during treatment for an enlarged prostate, but is not prostate cancer. At the time, his daughter-in-law, the Princess of Wales had temporarily stepped away from public life while recovering from abdominal surgery.
But in a dramatic development that paralleled the King’s own story, her situation was far more serious. Following weeks of speculation about her health, Kate explained in a video released by Kensington Palace in March that post-op tests had detected cancer. “My medical team therefore advised that I should undergo a course of preventive chemotherapy and I am now in the early stages of that treatment,” she said.
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