King Charles has cancer

[SpankyMcFarland]

 

King Charles has just been diagnosed with cancer. Apparently, it’s not prostate cancer according to CNN and was discovered incidentally during his recent hospitalization for benign prostatic enlargement. So one might wonder about leukaemia or lung cancer found on routine pre-operative screening with blood tests or a chest radiograph. Let’s hope they give us more details soon to prevent the sort of needless and alarmist speculation I have just indulged in.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2024/feb/05/king-charles-cancer-royal-health-latest-news-updates

 

Edited February 5, 2024 by SpankyMcFarland

[SpankyMcFarland]

Here is the statement:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68205659

In the last line, it is claimed that this has been made public ‘to prevent speculation’ but that will not be the case because so many details have been withheld. 

 

[Moonbox]

There are as many types of cancer as there are flavors of candy.  We can't speculate on what it could or couldn't be.  Sometimes cancer is discovered by simple blood test, and it could be the earliest stage, all the way to much worse.  It could be stage 4 that metastasized in his nuts, for all we know.  

[SpankyMcFarland]

28 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

There are as many types of cancer as there are flavors of candy.  We can't speculate on what it could or couldn't be.  Sometimes cancer is discovered by simple blood test, and it could be the earliest stage, all the way to much worse.  It could be stage 4 that metastasized in his nuts, for all we know.  

It has already been revealed he will be receiving outpatient treatment so I doubt it’s a massive tumour in his colon etc. or they would not have let him out. 

[SpankyMcFarland]

The King lies at the heart of a global publicity machine that his family stoke constantly. That’s fine when you’re well but the pressure to tell all will mount inexorably. The press hyenas may say nice things about him generally but they are still hyenas. 

Edited February 5, 2024 by SpankyMcFarland

[Moonbox]

12 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

It has already been revealed he will be receiving outpatient treatment so I doubt it’s a massive tumour in his colon etc. or they would not have let him out. 

Outpatient therapy can mean aggressive chemo and radiation.  Maybe they need to shrink the tumor before operating, or maybe there's no tumor at all.  Fact is that we don't know anything, and even an oncologist doctor wouldn't be able to intelligently speculate based on the information we have. 

Regardless, Harry is coming to visit him from across the Atlantic, so it's obviously not unlikely to just be a benign skin lesion.     

Edited February 5, 2024 by Moonbox

[SpankyMcFarland]

6 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

Outpatient therapy can mean aggressive chemo and radiation.  Maybe they need to shrink the tumor before operating, or maybe there's no tumor at all.  Fact is that we don't know anything, and even an oncologist doctor wouldn't be able to intelligently speculate based on the information we have. 

Regardless, Harry is coming to visit him from across the Atlantic, so it's obviously not unlikely to just be a benign skin lesion.     

Yes that is possible. However, I doubt he would have insisted his core duties will be unaffected if he was facing life-threatening surgery any time soon. And we know it’s not a benign skin lesion because cancer (malignancy) was already described. I would also imagine a low grade malignancy of the skin like basal cell carcinoma would have simply been announced and dealt with.

I think we may have to wait a little longer for a visit from our head of state.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canadian-diplomat-says-king-charles-could-visit-canada-within-several-months/article_ed1513f2-4f86-542a-9296-10169d3fb8f3.html

Isn’t it 14 years now? 

 

Edited February 5, 2024 by SpankyMcFarland

[Moonbox]

I'm just saying our speculating is kind of pointless.  Visits from our head of state are...also kind of pointless.

[SpankyMcFarland]

25 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

I'm just saying our speculating is kind of pointless.  Visits from our head of state are...also kind of pointless.

What democracy anything like our size, apart from another hapless place on the other side of the globe, has an absentee head of state? In addition their deputy here is effectively appointed by the PM. I wish to assure readers that these arrangements don’t keep me awake at night but they seem to be a decidedly odd way of doing things. 

Edited February 5, 2024 by SpankyMcFarland

[herbie]

Maybe I'll save any coins I get with Charles III on them... if I ever see one...

A guy told me once that every single person who gets cancer dies. Just like every single person who gets "born".

[Moonbox]

18 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

What democracy anything like our size, apart from another hapless place on the other side of the globe, has an absentee head of state? In addition their deputy here is effectively appointed by the PM. I wish to assure readers that these arrangements don’t keep me awake at night but they seem to be a decidedly odd way of doing things. 

It's definitely peculiar. 

I don't care if the head of state visits, or doesn't, or whether we keep the monarchy at all.  I guess if the head of state never even bothers to visit, it probably makes a better case for abolishing the monarchy.  It doesn't change much of anything for us here.

[SpankyMcFarland]

My requirements for the head of state position.

 

1. Lives in Canada. 
 

2. Good health.

 

3. Good character. 
 

4. Under 75. 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

Under 75. 

I can't agree more on that one. 

There should be reasonable age limits. 

Just like driving at 90 should come with more testing.

[Dougie93]

4 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

My requirements for the head of state position.

1. Lives in Canada.

a Canadian Head of State would be folly

since the Canadian political class are all spineless provincials by nature

cowards, sycophants, cronies & traitors

thus your Head of State would invariably be an obsequious boot licking government apparatchik appointee

who would simply do whatever they were told to do, by whatever political faction was perceived to have power

all members of HM Canadian Armed Forces are bound by solemn oath before God Himself

to go to war against any such usurpation

over the top when the whistle blows with the brothers to the left & right of you

in defence of the British Crown in North America, unto death as necessary

for the Commander-in-Chief at Buckingham Palace

Dileas Gu Brath

[NAME REMOVED]

ALL HAIL KING WILLIAM THE V

[Dougie93]

6 minutes ago, DUI_Offender said:

ALL HAIL KING WILLIAM THE V

heir to the throne of William III,  Prince of Orange

founder of British Westminster Parliamentary Supremacy

Glorious Revolution of 1688

[Dougie93]

my heart goes out to HM The Queen Consort

Colonel-in-Chief of The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada

In Pace Paratus

[August1991]

On 2/5/2024 at 4:02 PM, Moonbox said:

I'm just saying our speculating is kind of pointless.  Visits from our head of state are...also kind of pointless.

Charles? Paul McCartney?

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This thread is about death. The end. As Shakespeare said,   "... this endless sleep."

 

[SpankyMcFarland]

So it’s more or less official. He ain’t coming this year:

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In a response to a CBC News access to information request, a Canadian official wrote that "following the announcement of a cancer diagnosis for His Majesty the King, there are no more tours planned in Canada for 2024, nor are there any tours planned with other members of the Royal Family."

Sources who are not authorized to speak publicly have told CBC News that planning for the royal visit has been postponed.

 

Note that our head of state already found time to visit countries where he isn’t the chief cook and bottle washer:

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As King, he has travelled to Germany, Romania, France, Kenya and, most recently, the United Arab Emirates for the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Canadians don’t sound too pushed either way:

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A Leger survey of 1,544 Canadians found 56 per cent of respondents agreed the country should "reconsider its ties" to the monarchy now that there's a new sovereign.

It also found that 67 per cent of respondents felt "indifferent" to Charles's new role. Only 12 per cent said it's "good news."

About 80 per cent of respondents said they're not "personally attached" to the monarchy.

 

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/king-charles-planned-visit-canada-170438685.html

 

Edited February 12, 2024 by SpankyMcFarland