The Charles III Years + cancer diagnosis

[floppet]

Bet he's thankful he doesn't have to wait for treatment on the NHS.

 

[Dark Carnival]

Oh he's DOOMED (warning: Nigel Farage).

Herbs and prayers will heal His Highness

 

[RJN]

Oh we do, we're BRITS. It's our birthright that we wish our sovereigns dead for the bank holiday.

@RJN however is American so he just wants a poor old man to die for no reason.

I’m sorry that I’m an amazing person who wants my friends to get a day off work

 

[Sheena]

IS HE DEAD YET?

 

[Funky]

IS HE DEAD YET?

I’m sure the DAILY FAIL would know

 

[untilted]

So Charles is going to essential oil his way out of cancer?

 

[Ellie]

Maybe he should try that ear seed acupuncture bullshit from Dragon’s Den

 

[Tisch]

Enjoying that we have a Paddington picture before he's even in the GROUND. He's literally leading Charles to the AFTERLIFE

 

[GinAg (39)]

Not Charles Related:

 

[jivafox]

The Bangkok at the end makes it even better!

 

[big ron]

Oh he's DOOMED (warning: Nigel Farage).

Might send him a bottle of weed oil

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Private Eye very much saying he's ON THE WAY OUT

 

[octophone]

Why do they call him 'Brian'?

Also, they seem to be implying that Kate is properly ill too.

 

[Jark]

Marina Hyde's column on the Kate saga is some of the best witting I've seen in ages. she gets it

The royals bring on their B team, captained by Prince Andrew. No wonder some fans think it’s all over | Marina Hyde

With details scant about the Princess of Wales’s health, diehard royalists are losing their minds. Into the vacuum steps Andy, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

Spoiler

Yet we live in an age where the royal family’s chief challenge is itself. All its crises come from within – deaths, divorces, diseases, decampings to America. The trouble for the royals, ultimately, is that you need those diehard fans to be on your side. The base must be rallied. As Queen Elizabeth II famously put it: “I have to be seen to be believed.” Perhaps the monarchy will end up considering the wisdom of slimming itself down to the point it might almost provoke one of those other classic headline templates of intrusive fake concern: “Fears for painfully thin royal family – pals say its health drive has gone too far.” In the meantime, could someone please urgently substitute Prince Andrew, or sell him to the Saudis in the transfer window?

 

[Kratz]

Why do they call him 'Brian'?

Also, they seem to be implying that Kate is properly ill too.

It’s based on Private Eye’s send up of the documentary of the royals (called the Royal
Family) commissioned by the Queen in the 1960s. Private Eye treated it like a soap opera so gave them all soap opera names. The Queen became Brenda, Charles is Brian, Margaret was Yvonne and it has stuck ever since.

 

[Rita]

King Charles is addressing the nation tomorrow? Is that common practice at Easter?

 

[Madíson]

The King would normally be out and about handing out money on Maundy Thursday. Likely a replacement for that as he’s avoiding crowds.

 

[Rita]

The King would normally be out and about handing out money on Maundy Thursday. Likely a replacement for that as he’s avoiding crowds.

He is attending an Easter church service at Windsor so not actively avoiding crowds.

 

[Eddie]

He is attending an Easter church service at Windsor so not actively avoiding crowds.

Isn't the chapel on the grounds though?

 

[Rita]

Is the chapel on the grounds though?

St George’s Chapel?

 

[Eddie]

Yes. Sorry, I had a typo in my post.

I assume he'll be socially distancing given that he is immunocompromised.

 

[ButterTart]

The King would normally be out and about handing out money on Maundy Thursday. Likely a replacement for that as he’s avoiding crowds.

Good idea, it's a bugger to park on a bank holiday.

 

[Eddie]

Good idea, it's a bugger to park on a bank holiday.

We have an extra bank holiday this year??

 

[Eddie]

dp

 

[ZenGiraffe]

We have an extra bank holiday this year??

Depends how bad his cancer is

 

[octophone]

Depends how bad his cancer is

OMG !

 

[octophone]

He's not allowed to croak until we've had another 10 or so years out of him. Too expensive for the whole burial/coronation fandango.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Thought this article was interesting; a more sympathetic and generous version of how I feel about the royals, and in particular their right to privacy/normality.