Picture the contrast.
On one side, King Charles III smiles at a fellow cancer patient and says lightly, “Not too bad… it’s always a bit of a shock, isn’t it, when they tell you?”
On the other side, headlines scream about “funeral plans under review” and code names like Operation Menai Bridge, the protocol for his eventual state funeral.
That tension — a king trying to sound calm, and a media ecosystem already talking about his last journey down the Mall — is exactly where the British public now finds itself.
So what’s really happening? Is the palace quietly downplaying a serious cancer, or are some outlets dramatically overselling a story that isn’t confirmed?
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