{"id":324808,"date":"2026-08-19T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324808\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:16:08","slug":"queen-camilla-says-it-was-difficult-to-keep-king-charles-cancer-diagnosis-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324808\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla says it was difficult to keep King Charles\u2019 cancer diagnosis private"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain\u2019s Queen Camilla<\/a> has spoken publicly for the first time about how hard it was to keep her husband King Charles\u2019 cancer diagnosis<\/a> initially private.<\/p>\n

Buckingham Palace revealed in February 2024 that the British monarch was undergoing treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer. He is still receiving treatment but said last December than an early diagnosis and effective intervention meant this could be scaled back<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A week before the palace made the announcement, Camilla visited a Maggie\u2019s cancer support center at a London hospital and in a video released on behalf of the charity on Wednesday, she said it had been hard not to talk about her husband\u2019s own illness.<\/p>\n

\"ThePrincess Kate also spoke publicly about her cancer diagnosis.Max Mumby\/Indigo \/ via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody could say anything at the time, that was quite difficult,\u201d Camilla told Laura Lee, the chief executive of Maggie\u2019s of which the queen is president.<\/p>\n

\u201cI almost said something but, you know, I felt that it wasn\u2019t the time to say, (I) looked at everybody who was suffering and all the relations, and I think it made me realize even more how important these places were. I was just longing to let it out but obviously I couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the film, Camilla spoke of looking after her \u201cpoor husband\u201d and how he was determined to keep working.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at my husband, nothing stopped him,\u201d she said. \u201cHe just said, this is my way I\u2019m going to cope with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"\/<\/p>\n

Maggie\u2019s has said that the revelation that Charles and his daughter-in-law Kate, the Princess of Wales, had undergone treatment for cancer<\/a> and their willingness to speak publicly about coping with the illness had had a huge positive impact on fellow sufferers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe king\u2019s openness about his diagnosis has undoubtedly helped others to be more open themselves and to now hear the Queen\u2019s completely understandable and natural response as a wife, shines a light on why it is so important that family and friends also get the support they need,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s Queen Camilla has spoken publicly for the first time about how hard it was to keep her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-324808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}