King Charles III issues first statement since hospitalization amid cancer battle: ‘Shocked and saddened’

King Charles III issues first statement since hospitalization amid cancer battle: ‘Shocked and saddened’

King Charles III issued his first statement since he was hospitalized due to temporary side effects from his cancer treatment.

The monarch addressed the people of Myanmar, Asia, Saturday after they endured a devastating earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people.

“My wife [Queen Camilla] and I were most dreadfully shocked and saddened to learn of the devastating earthquake in Myanmar, with its tragic loss of life and appalling damage to homes, buildings and livelihoods, not to mention the destruction of sacred pagodas, monasteries and other places of worship,” he said in the statement via his Instagram Stories.

 

King Charles III in 2024

King Charles III issued his first statement since he was hospitalized after experiencing temporary side effects from his cancer treatment.

 

King Charles III during a visit to Broighter Gold Farm in 2025

 

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“I know that the people of Myanmar continue to endure so much hardship and tragedy in your live, and I have long admired your extraordinary resilience and spirit,” Charles, 76, continued.

The royal concluded his statement by sending his “deepest possible sympathy to all those who have suffered the profound tragedy of losing their loved ones, their homes and their precious livelihoods.”

Charles’ message comes two days after a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace told the Sun the king was hospitalized following “scheduled and ongoing medical treatment for cancer.”

 

King Charles III and Queen Camilla in 2025
The royal concluded his statement by sending his “deepest possible sympathy to all those who have suffered the profound tragedy of losing their loved ones, their homes and their precious livelihoods.”ZUMAPRESS.com
King Charles III in his office
Charles’ message comes two days after a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace told the Sun the king was hospitalized following “scheduled and ongoing medical treatment for cancer.”via REUTERS
King Charles III in 2023.
“The King experienced temporary side effects that required a short period of observation in hospital,” the Buckingham Palace rep said.“The King experienced temporary side effects that required a short period of observation in hospital,” the Buckingham Palace rep said.“His Majesty’s afternoon engagements were therefore postponed.”

The spokesperson shared that though Charles had already returned to his London residence, Clarence House, all of his engagements for Friday would be rescheduled “as a precautionary measure, acting on medical advice.”

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In February 2024, Buckingham Palace announced that Charles had been diagnosed with cancer following surgery for a benign prostate enlargement.Mirrorpix / MEGA
King Charles III and Queen Camilla
The Palace has not disclosed what kind of cancer he has.Getty Images“His Majesty would like to send his apologies to all those who may be inconvenienced or disappointed as a result,” the statement concluded.

 

 

In February 2024, Buckingham Palace announced that Charles had been diagnosed with cancer following surgery for a benign prostate enlargement.

It’s unknown what type of cancer Charles has.

 

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Prince Harry arrives in London after his father, King Charles III, is diagnosed with cancer

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III’s cancer was caught early and the monarch will “crack on” with his constitutional duties, Britain’s prime minister said Tuesday, as Prince Harry flew in from California for a rare visit with his father.

King Charles seen for first time since diagnosis as Prince Harry arrives in the UK

Royal officials announced Monday that the 75-year-old king has been diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer and is receiving treatment as an outpatient.

Less than 18 months into the reign that he’d famously waited decades to begin, Charles suspended public engagements but will continue with state business — including weekly meetings with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak — and won’t be handing over his constitutional roles as head of state.

On Tuesday afternoon, Harry could seen arriving at the king’s Clarence House residence in a black SUV after an overnight flight.

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The two have a troubled relationship, and Harry has seen his father infrequently since the prince quit royal duties in 2020 and moved to Los Angeles with his wife, Meghan, citing what they said was the unbearable intrusions and racist attitudes of the British media.

 

Harry, 39, has since detailed his rocky relationship with his family and his royal inheritance in TV interviews, a documentary and a memoir, “Spare.”

About an hour after Harry arrived, Charles and Queen Camilla were driven from their residence to nearby Buckingham Palace in a royal Bentley. The couple waved to tourists and well-wishers gathered outside the palace gates. They then traveled by helicopter to Sandringham, the monarch’s rural residence in eastern England.

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Buckingham Palace said the king’s cancer was found during Charles’ recent hospital treatment for an enlarged prostate but is a “separate issue” and not prostate cancer.

“Thankfully, this has been caught early,” Sunak told BBC radio, adding: “We’ll crack on with everything.”

“Many families around the country listening to this will have been touched by the same thing and they know what it means to everyone,” Sunak said. “So we’ll just be willing him on and hopefully we get through this as quickly as possible.”

Prince Harry arrives in London after his father, King Charles III, is diagnosed with cancer

The palace said Charles, who has generally enjoyed good health, “remains wholly positive about his treatment and looks forward to returning to full public duty as soon as possible.”

Charles became king in September 2022 when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died at the age of 96 after 70 years on the throne.

News of the king’s diagnosis comes as his daughter-in-law Kate, Princess of Wales, recovers from abdominal surgery that saw her hospitalized for about two weeks.

Kate is taking a break from royal duties as she recovers. Her husband, Prince William, who is heir to the throne, also took time off to help look after her and the couple’s three children, but is due to preside over a ceremony at Windsor Castle and a charity dinner on Wednesday.

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Charles departed from royal tradition with his openness about his prostate condition. For centuries Britain’s royal family remained tight-lipped about health matters.

Disclosing information about his cancer diagnosis — albeit in a limited way — is another break with tradition.

When U.K. monarchs had real power, news of illness was withheld for fear it might weaken their authority. The habit of secrecy lingered after royals became constitutional figureheads.

The British public wasn’t told that Charles’ grandfather, King George VI, had lung cancer before his death in February 1952 at the age of 56, and some historians have claimed that the king himself wasn’t told he was terminally ill.

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In the final years of Elizabeth’s life, the public was told only that the queen was suffering from “mobility issues” when she began to miss public appearances towards the end of her life. The cause of her death was listed on the death certificate simply as “old age.”

When and how much to disclose about illness remains a difficult subject for many public figures. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been criticized for not telling President Joe Biden or other key leaders that that he was being treated for prostate cancer, even when he was hospitalized in intensive care in January for post-surgery complications.

Buckingham palace said that the king “has chosen to share his diagnosis to prevent speculation and in the hope it may assist public understanding for all those around the world who are affected by cancer.”

Charles took the throne intending to preside over a slimmer monarchy with fewer senior royals carrying out ceremonial public duties. But with Charles and Kate both temporarily sidelined, Harry self-exiled to California and Prince Andrew largely banished from view because of his association with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the royal “Firm” risks becoming severely overstretched.

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William and Camilla are both expected to take on extra public engagements during the king’s treatment.

There are no current plans to call on the “counsellors of state” — senior royals, including the queen and the heir to the throne — to deputize for the monarch on constitutional duties such as signing legislation and receiving ambassadors.

 

King Charles III, a Quiet Diplomat, is Stepping Up

As he welcomed the leaders of Ukraine and Canada to his country estate this week, the king was sending a message to the world.

King Charles III with a Royal Navy officer aboard a British aircraft carrier.

A photograph released by Britain’s Ministry of Defense showing King Charles III visiting the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Prince of Wales in the English Channel on Tuesday, as the Royal Navy finalizes preparations for a major deployment to the Indo-Pacific this spring. Credit…Britain’s Ministry of Defense

 

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King Charles III flew by helicopter to the H.M.S. Prince of Wales in the English Channel on Tuesday, where he mingled with sailors and watched as fighter jets took off from the deck of the ship, a Royal Navy aircraft carrier. It might have been a welcome getaway from his suddenly complicated social life.

In the span of five days, Charles had invited President Trump for a rare second state visit to Britain and then played host to two of Mr. Trump’s biggest antagonists, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, at his country estate northeast of London.

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None of those gestures by Charles was overtly political. As is customary in Britain’s constitutional monarchy, he acted at the behest of the government. But they have nevertheless drawn the 76-year-old king into a swirling diplomatic drama in a way that is almost unheard-of for a British sovereign.

Charles’s invitation to Mr. Trump, delivered with much fanfare by Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday in the Oval Office, has become more contentious since the president clashed with Mr. Zelensky over American support for Ukraine the day after his more harmonious session with Mr. Starmer.

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“Now Stop the State Visit for ‘Bully’ Trump,” The Mail on Sunday, a right-wing tabloid, said on its front page. It cited a chorus of demands by lawmakers and other critics that the government rescind the invitation to Mr. Trump to telegraph Britain’s displeasure with the president and solidarity with Ukraine.

Symbolically, Charles may have done the next best thing: hosting Mr. Zelensky at his estate, Sandringham, after the president attended a summit meeting on Sunday devoted to Ukraine. Buckingham Palace did not disclose what they talked about but said Mr. Zelensky was “warmly received” by Charles, who served him tea in Sandringham’s Saloon room.

 

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King Charles, in a gray double breasted suit, smiles as he stands next to President Volodymyr Zelensky in a grand room with a fireplace behind them.
King Charles and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine earlier this month, at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England.Credit…Pool photo by Joe Giddens

For Mr. Trump’s critics, the icing on the cake came on Monday, when Mr. Trudeau, whose country has come under sweeping American tariffs and which Mr. Trump says he wants to annex as the 51st state, made the pilgrimage to Sandringham to meet Charles. The king, of course, is also Canada’s ceremonial head of state.

Mr. Trudeau said in a social media post that they discussed “matters of importance to Canadians — including, above all, Canada’s sovereign and independent future.” Charles himself was silent, which frustrated some Canadian politicians, who argued that he should have publicly reaffirmed Canada’s sovereignty. Given his nonpolitical role, that was not going to happen. But the symbolism of the sovereign, smiling as he greeted a prime minister whom Mr. Trump refers to as governor, was lost on no one.

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“It’s been a really interesting week in British and royal diplomacy,” said Ed Owens, a royal historian. “People have talked about how this royal family has become a secret weapon for British diplomacy. We saw Keir Starmer wielding the king and the monarchy as such in his interactions with Trump.”

Mr. Owens said Mr. Trump’s well-established affection for the king and the royal family was an intangible factor that could stick in the back of the American president’s mind as he deals with Britain over Ukraine. Mr. Starmer has positioned himself as a bridge between Europe and the United States on the issue. And the president was plainly delighted by the invitation from Charles.

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“A beautiful man, a wonderful man,” a beaming Mr. Trump told Mr. Starmer, from the same chair where he sat 24 hours later, as he chastised Mr. Zelensky, telling the Ukrainian president: “Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel. You’re in no position to dictate that.”

Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the status of the invitation to Mr. Trump, noting that the government is in charge of such issues. Mr. Starmer brushed aside calls for the visit to be canceled on Sunday, saying in a BBC interview that critics were “trying to ramp up the rhetoric without really appreciating what is the single most important thing at stake here — we’re talking about peace in Europe.”

 

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and President Trump at the White House on Thursday.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times

Two people with knowledge of the palace said it was highly unlikely that the invitation would be rescinded, given the ill will that would generate with the White House — though the challenge of matching the calendars of two heads of state could mean that the state visit does not take place for months, they added.

In his letter, the king broached the idea of Mr. Trump first seeing him in Scotland, where the president has a golf club, Trump Turnberry, and Charles has a castle, Balmoral, to make the arrangements for the state visit at a later time. The Scotland meeting would be more informal, without the honor guard and lavish banquet in Buckingham Palace that Mr. Trump enjoyed in his last state visit in 2019.

“The idea of it being indefinitely delayed until a peace agreement is reached, on terms that are acceptable to Ukraine and Europe, is interesting,” Mr. Owens said, adding that the royal family “has bought Britain influence within these negotiations that it might not have had otherwise.”

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For all his adherence to the monarch’s nonpolitical role, Charles is known to be more politically aware and opinionated than his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II. Early in his reign, he came under criticism for welcoming the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to Windsor Castle, after she signed a deal on Northern Ireland with Rishi Sunak, who was then Britain’s prime minister.

Critics saw it as putting a royal imprimatur on the government’s deal. They said that Charles, whose support of the European Union was well documented, had allowed himself to be used by Downing Street.

The king has been demonstrative in his backing of Ukraine, issuing statements and making regular visits to relief organizations that help refugees from the war. Early in the conflict, when he was still Prince of Wales, he visited a group in London and spoke to a family that had been evacuated from Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine.

“So, what do you think the aim of the Russians is?” Charles asked them. “Is it to remove people?”

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King Charles talking with people who had fled from Ukraine.
Prince Charles in London in 2022, before he became king, meeting with people who had fled from Ukraine. Credit…Pool photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth

Given the king’s strong feelings and the delicacy of the moment, royal watchers said the government should be careful not to overextend what has so far been a beneficial role. His value as an agent of British “soft power,” they say, resides in his being above politics.

Even his long-planned visit to the aircraft carrier was symbolic, given Britain’s pledge to deploy troops to a peacekeeping force for Ukraine. The H.M.S. Prince of Wales is in training exercises before deploying on an eight-month mission to Asia.

Speaking to crew members in his dress uniform, Charles could have been addressing Mr. Starmer, a relatively new prime minister, who has been struggling to calm the tempest between Ukraine and the United States.

“Your deployment in the next month comes amidst new challenges in an ever-changing and more unpredictable world,” the king said. “It will undoubtedly demand tenacity and determination, both at sea and for those you leave behind at home.”

 

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