He is still receiving treatment but said last December an early diagnosis and effective intervention meant this could be scaled back.<\/p>\n
A week before the palace made the announcement, Camilla visited a Maggie’s cancer support centre at a London hospital and in a video released on behalf of the charity on Wednesday (local time), she said it had been hard not to talk about her husband’s own illness.<\/p>\n
“I remember coming to see Maggie’s just after the king being diagnosed,” she told Laura Lee, the chief executive of Maggie’s, of which the queen is president.<\/p>\n
“Nobody could say anything at the time. That was quite difficult.<\/p>\n
“I almost said something but, you know, I felt that it wasn’t the time to say. I looked at everybody who was suffering and all the relations, and I think it made me realise even more how important these places were.<\/p>\n
“I was just longing to let it out but obviously I couldn’t.”<\/p>\n
In the film, produced to mark Maggie’s 30th anniversary, the queen spoke of looking after her “poor husband” and how he was determined to keep working.<\/p>\n
“Look at my husband, nothing stopped him,” she says.<\/p>\n
“He just said, ‘This is my way I’m going to cope with it.'”<\/p>\n