On Friday, King Charles announced, via a prerecorded video, that his cancer treatments have been so successful, his doctors are reducing the treatments. He’s not in remission and he’s not cancer-free, but medically, it does sound like he’s turned some kind of corner. Buckingham Palace courtiers have been happily briefing everyone with the new parameters of Charles’s 2026 schedule, which will include more work and more travel. What’s notable, to me, is which courtiers are NOT speaking. There was no message on or off the record from Kensington Palace, nothing about “obviously, Prince William is thrilled that his father is doing so well.” That message was not briefed because obviously, William has been telling everyone that he’s king in all but name for the past 18 months or so. Now his Scooter King reign will have to wait! Not only that, Charles has big plans to return to a full schedule, which will make William and Kate even lazier (if possible).
The King will be able to fill his diary across five full days a week for the first time in 22 months following a cutback in his cancer treatment.
King Charles, who announced the “good news” in a television message on Friday night, has had to block off his schedule to accommodate weekly treatment since his diagnosis, and has also suffered side-effects.
While it has not had any major impact on his public engagements, it has taken around five hours away from what he prefers to be a full working schedule. The King is a known workaholic, reading papers and writing letters late into the night and insisting that his daytime diary is filled with meetings, audiences, visits and away days.
He is now expected to go ahead with planned overseas travel, likely to include a trip to the United States in the spring to mark the country’s 250th anniversary, and to Antigua and Barbuda in the autumn for the Commonwealth heads of government meeting.
He will continue to have treatment but it will be less frequent, with longer gaps between sessions depending on how he responds. His schedule, of both work and treatment, will be designed around “protecting and prioritising” his recovery, a source said.
The planned travel was the first thing I thought of when Charles made his announcement: oh, he’ll be able to go on real tours and trips now. For the past two years, Charles has limited his travel and pains have been made to schedule trips around Charles’s treatments. But now he’ll be able to visit the US, Antigua and Barbuda for more than a couple of days. I bet he adds even more travel to his schedule too. Meanwhile, William didn’t want to go to Pope Francis’s funeral because it interfered with a football match.
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- CAPTION CORRECTION AMENDING EVENT AND LOCATION King Charles III during the Ceremonial Welcome to Australia at Australian Parliament House in Canberra, marking the King’s first visit as sovereign to Australian Parliament House, on day two of the royal visit to Australia and Samoa. Featuring: King Charles III Where: Canberra, Australia When: 20 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III during the ceremonial planting of two snow gum eucalyptus trees, in the garden of Government House in Canberra, on day two of the royal visit to Australia and Samoa. To mark every Royal Visit to Government House dating back to 1985, members of the Royal Family have been invited to participate in a tradition of tree planting within the grounds. Featuring: King Charles III Where: Canberra, Australia When: 20 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III views the Pyroton fire demonstration during a visit to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) National Bushfire Behaviour Research Laboratory, to learn about world-leading burn over protection systems, and bushfire behaviour research, on day two of his visit to Australia and Samoa. Featuring: King Charles III Where: Canberra, Australia When: 21 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III during the Ceremonial Welcome to Australia at Australian Parliament House in Canberra, marking the King’s first visit as sovereign to Australian Parliament House, on day two of the royal visit to Australia and Samoa. Featuring: King Charles III Where: Canberra, Australia When: 21 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III receives an official Royal ‘Ava ceremonial’ welcome during their visit to the National University of Samoa, on day five of the royal visit to Australia and Samoa Featuring: King Charles III Where: Samoa When: 24 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Apia, Samoa Featuring: King Charles III Where: Apia, Samoa When: 24 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Apia, Samoa Featuring: King Charles III Where: Apia, Samoa When: 24 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla host an official dinner and reception for the Commonwealth Heads of Government at the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Apia, Samoa, on day six of the royal visit to Australia and Samoa Featuring: King Charles III, Queen Camilla Where: Apia, Samoa When: 25 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla host an official dinner and reception for the Commonwealth Heads of Government at the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Apia, Samoa on day six of the royal visit to Australia and Samoa Featuring: King Charles III, Queen Camilla Where: Samoa When: 25 Oct 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
An elderly man in actual cancer treatment seems eager to return to a full schedule of “work” while his oldest would rather spend the day in football forums and avoiding his wife. The Waleses really have no shame, lol. I wonder if the only reason the monarchy will survive is because the general public is just too apathetic towards it to do anything about it
And how many days will Bulliam be working? He wants to be King so bad so let him match or exceed Charles schedule. Let’s see how many times he uses school runs as an excuse.
What I want to see is Charles telling William he can’t travel to any of the World Cup matches – that he has to stay back in the UK and give out prizes at local farmers’ markets.
LOL. The last time William went to a WC game might have been in Germany, 2006. It’s just funny bc everyone assumes he’s gonna go bc it’s in the US but really why should he? Bc Harry’s there and they’re obsessed with making it a thing.
William won’t be amused. But neither Camilla. She hates travelling officially, behaving/respecting foreign cultures and being separated from her booze, her jigs and her racist ladies in waiting-circle…
Love that idea..
It really is wild how the Wales didn’t say anything, like well wishes or something or we’re so happy. Would it be performative? Yeah. But still.
Right? Instead it was Kate is doing something for cancer too!!
For the life of me I don’t understand why we’re supposed to believe that they’re this close family, when all evidence to the contrary exists. They really behave like they can’t stand each other, and smiling at events four times a year is doing nothing to dissuade that perception.
I mean they’re able to refrain from clawing each other’s eyes out when they’re seen together(minus the infamous walkabout with the sussexes). And yeah they do smile and sometimes hug or kiss for some photos. But that’s all facade.
So even the Telegraph thinks that a sick elderly man will do more than his elder son.
My heart bleeds for Bulliam, Kate, and sykophant (sp) Tom Sykes. /s
That thumbnail photo of him grinning is ghoulish. He literally looks like if Dobby – not Smeagol – had been 50% consumed by The Ring.
The opening picture says to me:
“god is innnn his holy temple, as he callllllls aaaooouut his naammmeeee”
then
“CAROLEANNE” (screams dad)
That’s exactly what I thought!
Isn’t this embarrassing we have an elderly man with cancer hoping to work 5 days a week whereas his heir is half his age, fully fit and barely works a two day week over 7 months as he takes 5 months off each year to devote to his kids long school holidays?!
I suspect he is trying to set his son an example about how a king should behave, I think he is wasting his time.
He looks like an absolute ghoul in the header photo.
Fitting.
How embarrassing for W&K. His elderly father is “eager” to get back to a full schedule while he hides out at Aston Villa games. and Kate has used her cancer recovery and “good days and bad days” as an excuse to get out of work permanently. those two really have no shame.
It would be embarrassing if they had any shame. But they don’t seem.
While I’ll always consider Charles the head colonialist and racist leech in a family of colonialist, racist leeches, I admit he has a work ethic.
It’s a shame Willy didn’t inherit that in the Windsor genes that are messing with his face.
Scooter is “right”. Something about him is way off. I don’t believe he can be prodded or even shamed into working. Yes, he’s absurdly lazy and vacant, but there must be something else going on emotionally/mentally.
Edit: *not* right