Fuck Cancer
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The type of cancer has not been revealed, but the palace said the King began “regular treatments” on Monday.
The King informed both his sons personally about his diagnosis and Prince William was said to be in regular contact with his father.
Prince Harry, who lives in the United States, spoke to his father and will be travelling to the UK to see him in the coming days.
The King, 75, returned to London from Sandringham in Norfolk on Monday morning and the palace says he has commenced treatment as an outpatient.
Although he will pause his public events, the King will continue with his constitutional role as head of state, including paperwork and private meetings.
Prince William had also temporarily withdrawn from public engagements while he helped his wife Catherine, the Princess of Wales, as she recovered from “abdominal surgery”.
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Didn’t expect him to be reigning monarch for long given his already advanced age and the fact males tend to live shorter lives, wonder if this will cut it even shorter?
Would be weird for the longest serving monarch to be replaced by the shortest serving one.
Which raises a good question… who was the shortest serving British monarch?
Oh, of COURSE there’s a Wiki for that…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_monarchy_records
"The shortest-reigning monarch was Lady Jane Grey who ruled for 9 days from 6 July until 15 July 1553 (although she was only proclaimed queen by the Lords of the council on 10 July). Her husband Lord Guildford Dudley was her consort for the entire reign, making this the shortest tenure of the male consort of a female monarch. Note: Jane’s reign is disputed.
The king with the shortest definitively known reign was Edgar the Ætheling who ruled for 2 months, 12 days in 1066 before submitting to William the Conqueror. Some records indicate that Sweyn Forkbeard reigned for only 40 days in 1013–4.[7]"
Queen Elizabeth II died 9/8/2022, so Charles has already been in 514 days. He’s good…
If you are generally morbidly curious about odds.
And assuming speculation is right that it’s bowel cancer
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/king-charles-brave-words-kind-32054314
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/bowel-cancer/survival
Depends on what stage, but odds are given the level of care Royals get they’ve probably caught it at stage 1.
That’s a 55% chance he’s got 9 or 10 years for something else to get there first.
His father lived to 99 and he’s currently 75.
A very old friend at 89 told me they had cancer a week before his 90th. They then laughed and said it was too late to the party.
They were right in the end, it was his heart a few years later. Thankfully he was still pretty active and living life until the last couple of weeks. Great guy, genuinely kind and wise. The phrase he gave for his memorial was “It’s only sad to die if you haven’t lived. I’ve lived.”
It’s nice to see the monarchy embracing the speed running community. I can’t wait for summoning salt’s video on the latest MDQ.
(That’s sarcasm of course, cancer sucks)
Who’s next in line, just out of curiosity?
