King Charles III is suffering from a “form of cancer”, discovered during his prostate operation around ten days ago, Buckingham Palace announced in a press release this Monday, February 5, without saying more than the form of illness from which the king suffers. He began treatment without planning to stop his activities.
“During the king’s recent hospital intervention for benign prostatic hypertrophy, a distinct problem was noted” and “subsequent tests identified a form of cancer”, it is explained, specifying that the sovereign “will continue to take care of state affairs.” Charles III thus “began today a program of regular treatments, during which doctors advised him to postpone his public activities”. However, he will continue “to take care of state affairs and administrative tasks as usual”.
According to Buckingham Palace, the king “remains very optimistic about his treatment and looks forward to returning to public duties as soon as possible”, at a time when Princess Kate, wife of heir to the throne William, is she is also recovering after an operation. Like his operation for a benign prostate problem on which he had been transparent, Charles III “chose to share his diagnosis in order to avoid speculation, and in the hope of helping the public to understand all those affected by cancer around the world,” it says.