We checked in with royal fans outside Buckingham Palace King Charles’ cancer diagnosis.
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00:00 Hello, thanks for watching. I'm outside Buckingham Palace, where yesterday it was
00:07 announced that King Charles had been diagnosed with cancer. The King had recently undergone
00:13 surgery on his prostate, however it's believed that was a separate issue, but after tests
00:19 during the surgery, King Charles was found to have cancer. Buckingham Palace announced
00:25 the news and explained that the King wanted this to be public knowledge and hoped sharing
00:29 his diagnosis will help other families in similar positions. As ever, Buckingham Palace
00:35 has attracted thousands of tourists, but today there is a slightly more solemn atmosphere.
00:40 The news in the last couple of days that King Charles has been diagnosed with cancer, can
00:47 I just get your reaction to that? It's shocking, because it's unbelievable. So for cancer,
00:54 it's really, really shocking, because I thought, although he came in at 73, I thought he could
00:59 do 10 years with the health and the energy and the strength, but I'm very, very disappointed.
01:06 Well, I actually found out yesterday and my reaction was really surprised, especially
01:15 as now that we recently knew some of the rumours of the condition of Kate, I was surprised
01:25 and I felt pity of him and I was sad about it. I think cancer is pretty normal nowadays.
01:32 Of course it's bad, but a family member of myself also has cancer and they survived luckily,
01:39 but I don't know, it just makes it more human, you know what I mean? And if I think about
01:44 my home country, about the King there, I would barely hear anything about disease or something.
01:51 So it's good that they tell the public, that's good.
01:56 I thought it was a joke really, I thought it was a practical joke. I said, "Come on,
02:00 he just came back from hospital, what are you saying that he's got cancer now? Please,
02:03 can you get out of here?" Then later I saw it, and I saw it on the main, on the big,
02:10 wow, it was just unbelievable.