May I say I love her natural aging, too? She and Princess Anne look amazing.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla
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I know right?! More people (especially us americans) should take note how much classier it is to age gracefully instead of plasticly.
While I am glad that he's receiving immediate treatment and that he is putting his health first, chemo can be very hard on a person - it's even harder the older one gets. My mum has cancer and was receiving radiation and chemo and quit the chemo because the quality of life on it was simply not worth it to her. Granted, she is older than KC, but she was on one of the the "easier" forms of chemo, and it was still brutal. Granted, there are a lot of different types and reasons for chemo, and we know neither the type nor the reason for it (curative? palliative? neoadjuvant?). But I have to wonder whether it was caught early enough that they think the chemo will take care of it, or whether they're treating with chemo prior to another planned surgery.
This March, I’ll have been on chemo for three years. It’s palliative and I’m on the treatment for life plan. Fortunately it’s keeping me stable and I’m still tolerating it well, but there has been some collateral damage due to being on it for so long. I’ve had hard days so I understand why someone would want to stop.
In some cases cancer is like shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic. There are often many ways to treat or manage it and you keep doing what you can while still trying to maintain a quality of life for as long as possible until some new treatment comes along. Basically just manage it like a chronic illness.
I’m sorry about your mum and hope her current plan is keeping her comfortable and stable.
Hopefully for KC his treatment is a one course and done sort of thing that cures him of it so that he can get back to having a normal life.
The right person, in the right job, at the right time. Lovely too!
I agree with you. I'm totally against PS, fillers, botox and whatever else there is. Much classier!!
I'm hearing Charles called King Harald before announcing his diagnosis. I can't think of another reason to call him than the fact Harald had bladder cancer years ago and recovered.
King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra of the UK are King Harald's great-grandparents and Charles' great-great-grandparents which means that Charles and King Harald are second cousins once removed and can also leave one to wonder if there could be a genetic link to the type of cancer they both had/have. They are also very close friends.
It could be assumed that he is, especially if he was advised to not be taking on public-facing events. Chemo will wipe out your immune system and opens one up to illness and infection, which can cause delays in treatment schedule as well as other issues.
Not to mention the impact to energy levels and how you feel.
sending you love and best wishes 
Stop spreading rumours - we do not know what form of cancer he has
There was a urologist on TikTok who highly suspected bladder cancer as treatment for prostate allows you to look inside the bladder and it was likely discovered at that time. Also she said the treatments were chemo infusion to the bladder which could easily be done at home (where he is recovering).
An article in the NY Times also speculated that it might be bladder cancer for the same reason mentioned. The cancer specialists interviewed also emphasized that it could be anything really. Abdominal scans would have been done, and scans can pick up all sorts of things. Many cancers are discovered through elevated elements in routine bloodwork. There may have even been chest x-rays; some hospitals do those routinely when anesthesia is going to be administered in a procedure. Charles may have even made an offhand comment to his doctors about a symptom and that led to investigations. Anything is possible. Considering all the time he's spent out in the sun, in his military service, farming and on horseback, I would have guessed melanoma. But really who knows?