King: Good news about my cancer

 

The King has revealed his cancer treatment will be reduced in the new year.

In a televised message to the nation, the monarch said he had reached a “milestone” in his treatment, calling it a “personal blessing” and giving thanks for early diagnosis and medical advances.

He said: “Today I am able to share with you the good news that thanks to early diagnosis, effective intervention and adherence to doctors’ orders, my own schedule of cancer treatment can be reduced in the new year.”

Saying that the initial diagnosis could feel “overwhelming”, the King urged the public to be screened for their own peace of mind and said that early diagnosis “quite simply saves lives”.

For all His Majesty's faults and progressive ideas, how very lucky my country is to be a Christian monarchy, a family, not a country where all men are equal. I wish my adopted country Romania had the same good luck.

The King seemed to me something of a hobbledehoy even when the late Queen died and he ascended the throne, until the cancer diagnosis. I remember a picture of him after the diagnosis in a limousine looking anguished and thought now he has grown up.