Touched by the wave of support sent to him after the announcement of his cancer, King Charles III wanted to offer his thanks on Saturday February 10.
“I would like to express my most sincere thanks for the many messages of support and good wishes I have received in recent days,” the 75-year-old sovereign wrote in a statement posted on the family’s website and X account British royal.
“As anyone affected by cancer knows, kind thoughts like these provide the greatest comfort and encouragement,” he adds.
“It is also heartening to hear how sharing my diagnosis has helped to raise awareness and shine a light on the work of all of these organizations that support cancer patients and their families to across the UK and the rest of the world. »
Absent from public life
“My lifelong admiration for their tireless care and dedication is all the greater as I personally experience it,” adds the message signed “Charles R.”
Less than eighteen months after acceding to the throne, the sovereign began treatment on Monday for a form of cancer which was not specified. The disease was detected during a recent operation for benign prostatic hypertrophy but it is not prostate cancer. If he will continue some of his administrative functions, he will be absent from public life for an indefinite period.