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Speaker 1: Your host Mark Francis the Telegraph wondered if it is
Speaker 1: time to worry about King Charles. It is natural, perhaps inevitable,
Speaker 1: that questions arise when a monarch cancels public engagements, as
Speaker 1: his Majesty did last Friday in Birmingham. Yet those close
Speaker 1: to the situation insists this is not a sign of deterioration,
Speaker 1: but rather a moment of necessary pause. Aids say the
Speaker 1: treatment is moving in a positive direction and stress that
Speaker 1: the King remains deeply engaged in his duties. The precise
Speaker 1: nature of his cancer remains undisclosed, fueling speculation as ever,
Speaker 1: but that veil of mystery is as old as the
Speaker 1: monarchy itself, and it is worth remembering it was the
Speaker 1: King who personally chose to share his diagnosis in the
Speaker 1: first place, something that would have been unimaginable. Pallace sources
Speaker 1: say the current aim is to maintain the very encouraging
Speaker 1: status quo. That phrase may not spark headlines, but it
Speaker 1: does suggest cautious optimism, and despite the inevitable toll of treatment,
Speaker 1: the King has continued to meet people stand for long
Speaker 1: stretches at engagements, and even joke about the ordeal. During
Speaker 1: a recent visit to Northern Ireland, he asked fellow patients
Speaker 1: if they were managing to survive the side effects. All
Speaker 1: write a frank admission, but delivered with the conroderie. Perhaps
Speaker 1: most tellingly, when asked how he copes, the King offered
Speaker 1: a phrase from Churchill, keep buggering on. It's hardly the
Speaker 1: language of alarm, but it is the language of a
Speaker 1: man who's determined to carry on. So how worried should
Speaker 1: we be? Vigilant? Yes, but panicked? Not yet? In the express,
Speaker 1: Emily Ferguson explains, Charles is from a generation of royals
Speaker 1: who put the needs of the nation above their own,
Speaker 1: as epitomized by Queen Elizabeth's two famous mantras, we have
Speaker 1: to be seen to be believed, and never complain explain.
Speaker 1: But it's perhaps the words of his late father, Prince
Speaker 1: Philip that have stuck with him the most. No face
Speaker 1: royal would often tell his children to just get on
Speaker 1: with it, and his eldest son has certainly taken on
Speaker 1: that stoic approach to life. Since his cancer diagnosis last February,
Speaker 1: the King's hospital admission on Thursday is simply seen as
Speaker 1: a bump in the road, and sources a King to
Speaker 1: stress that his treatment continues in a positive direction and
Speaker 1: there was no drama. In the Telegraph, Tessa Dunlop writes
Speaker 1: about an increasingly isolated Harry. She tells us alongside Invictus
Speaker 1: center Bali was an easy shorthand for understanding what makes
Speaker 1: Harry tick. It was out of fundraising dinner for the
Speaker 1: latter in January twenty twenty that the Prince gave his
Speaker 1: farewell speech before he and Megant left Britain and the
Speaker 1: royal family behind. We are taking a leap of faith,
Speaker 1: he said, so thank you for giving me the courage
Speaker 1: to take this next step. His princely offerings of polo
Speaker 1: fundraisers and diplomatic glad handing already feel a little dated.
Speaker 1: Recent successful trips to Nigeria and Columbia suggest that the
Speaker 1: Duke has the connections to find new ways forward, but
Speaker 1: Meghan's presence as a woman of color on both those
Speaker 1: tours was transformative. However, these days, the Duchess has considerably
Speaker 1: less time on her hands to lend her husband a
Speaker 1: helping hand. Indeed, Meghan's extraordinary professional resilience only serves to
Speaker 1: further highlight her Harry's current lost boy status. Seemingly imperturbable,
Speaker 1: facing down the trolls on Gwyneth Paltrow's Instagram feed and
Speaker 1: announcing a second series of With Love Meghan as the
Speaker 1: hate watchers pushed her first series into Netflix's global top ten.
Speaker 1: The Duchess is currently unstoppable. Meghan's marriage to Harry gave
Speaker 1: her the X factor she needed to transfer from beat
Speaker 1: list actor to a list celebrity. Sadly, the same cannot
Speaker 1: be said for Harry. When he married Meghan and left
Speaker 1: the British monarchy, he swapped royal royalty for celebrity and
Speaker 1: naively believed that a life of service would prove a
Speaker 1: straightforward affair outside protective palace walls. The reality suggests otherwise.
Speaker 1: With the Invictus Games, Harry's one significant remaining trymph in
Speaker 1: an increasingly dangerous world full of war and poverty. It
Speaker 1: is tragic that our most able Prince of Hearts finds
Speaker 1: himself not only without his honorary military roles, but is
Speaker 1: now minus his flagship charitable mission in one of Africa's
Speaker 1: poorest regions the Daily Mails. Richard Eden cheers that sentiment,
Speaker 1: writing long ago, before he dreamed up the name Spare
Speaker 1: for his score settling an embittered memoir, before he allowed
Speaker 1: claims of racism to reverberate around the heads of an
Speaker 1: outraged and offended royal family, and before even Meghan Markle
Speaker 1: was a glint in his eye. The center of Prince
Speaker 1: Harry's universe revolved around a charity he named Center Baling.
Speaker 1: It brought a purpose and meaning to his at times
Speaker 1: chaotic life, and it was therapeutic to a young man
Speaker 1: still haunted by the death of his mother when he
Speaker 1: was only twelve. After the nightclubs, bars and brawls, this
Speaker 1: was Harry's coming of age moment, and in the absence
Speaker 1: of a smoking gun about what may be behind this
Speaker 1: extraordinary state of affairs of the charity. The accuations, along
Speaker 1: with doctor Chan Dowker's claimed that the Prince was playing
Speaker 1: the victim card by quitting his patron, is as bad
Speaker 1: as it gets. Even in faraway Montecito, the impact of
Speaker 1: her mockery will be impossible to escape. In one devastating passage,
Speaker 1: she took a swipe without naming names at those in
Speaker 1: this world who behave as though they are above the
Speaker 1: law and mistreat people who but Harry could she have
Speaker 1: had in mind, as she said of such people, that
Speaker 1: they play the victim card and use the very press
Speaker 1: they disdain to harm people who have the courage to
Speaker 1: challenge their conduct. How richly piquant that playing the victim card,
Speaker 1: all too familiar to anyone who has read Spare or
Speaker 1: watched the Netflix Harry and Meghan series, should now be
Speaker 1: applied to the prince more pallacy. Just a moment in
Speaker 1: the news dot co dot au. Daniella also wonders what's
Speaker 1: going on with Kate's ring. Danielle writes, over the last year,
Speaker 1: the Princess of Wales's famous engagement ring has disappeared and
Speaker 1: then real appeared repeatedly, Yeah, yeah, yeah, we get it.
Speaker 1: The perks of being a member of the royal family
Speaker 1: are hard to miss. The castles, the diamonds, the size
Speaker 1: of mint eas the never having to scrub your own
Speaker 1: grout or remember to take the green bin out. But
Speaker 1: let's talk about the downsides, like the nearly unthinkable degree
Speaker 1: of surveillance. It made international news in twenty sixteen and
Speaker 1: again in twenty eighteen, when Kate, the Princess of Wales
Speaker 1: appeared in public wearing small, discrete band aids on her fingers,
Speaker 1: Not even the US President faces such an extreme sort
Speaker 1: of bodily scrutiny. Why has in the six months since
Speaker 1: she announced she was in remission for cancer, has it
Speaker 1: appeared and then vanished, only for it to miraculously turn
Speaker 1: up again. It's there, it's gone, it's there again, and
Speaker 1: then wouldn't you know it's gone? Until twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: the Cadbury's cream egg sized sapphire and number was all
Speaker 1: but welded onto her finger, only coming off on rare occasions,
Speaker 1: such as for hygiene reasons when she visited a hospital.
Speaker 1: The whole thing might come down to something as simple
Speaker 1: and boring as comfort engagement ringers stunning, but would have
Speaker 1: to be somewhat unwieldly to wear day in and day
Speaker 1: out when trying to wrestle Prince Louis into his pe
Speaker 1: here stuffing a pheasant for supper. Then again, the princess
Speaker 1: wore the bleeding thing pretty much non stopped for more
Speaker 1: than thirteen years without it seeming to bother her. So
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure if this theory stands up. It
Speaker 1: looks like the hard working Wales family is planning to
Speaker 1: take yet another vacation. As the Easter holidays approach, the
Speaker 1: Prince and Princess of Wales are expecting to take another
Speaker 1: pause from their royal engagements, spending time with Prince George,
Speaker 1: Prince Charlotte and Prince Louis while the children enjoy their
Speaker 1: school break. Reports now suggest Prince William may be making
Speaker 1: a brief detour across the Channel to cheer on his
Speaker 1: beloved Aston Villa as they take on Paris Saint Germain
Speaker 1: in the Champions League quarter finals. William recently gave journalists
Speaker 1: a knowing smile and a brief farewell, see you in
Speaker 1: Paris before stepping into his car. His appearance in France
Speaker 1: now seems increasingly likely, particularly following a report from Get
Speaker 1: French Football News claiming that the PSG president Nassar l
Speaker 1: Klaffi has extended an invitation to the Prince. We noticed
Speaker 1: some royal shade being thrown out by inside a Deep
Speaker 1: Crown when we asked him about Charles. Deep Crown tells
Speaker 1: palace intrigue. This work until the end approach reflects the
Speaker 1: traditional royal understanding. That the crown is a lifetime commitment,
Speaker 1: not merely a job with scheduled holidays. While William's generation
Speaker 1: may be redefining royal duties for a new era, Charles
Speaker 1: remains firmly anchored in the service first doctrine that defined
Speaker 1: his mother's reign. The monarchy has always walked a delicate
Speaker 1: line between public duty and private suffering. King Charles appears
Speaker 1: determined to follow this tradition, keeping the institution functioning despite
Speaker 1: personal challenges, a commitment that will likely define his place
Speaker 1: in royal history. And there you have it. In fact,
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