Prince William Is ‘Worried’ About ‘Caged Lion’ King Charles: Report

Will Harry and Charles reunite?

Prince Harry and King Charles could reunite on Wednesday, with Harry expected to attend a celebration marking the 10th Invictus Games.^th birthday at Saint Paul and Charles Cathedral, the first garden party of the year at Buckingham Palace, the Sun reports. Both events are expected to end around 6 p.m., and father and son would be two miles apart, giving hope that a reunion could work, if both sides want it.

They met for 30 minutes in February, just after Charles’ shock cancer diagnosis.

A royal source told the newspaper: “Harry is normally 5,000 miles away in California, but by a happy coincidence on Wednesday they will only be three miles apart. It’s clear he’s looking forward to seeing his father again as he continues his recovery and most people are expecting another reunion next week.

As The Daily Beast reports, Harry is highly unlikely to see Prince William and Kate Middleton. A friend of the couple said they did not want the stress a visit might bring: “William and Catherine felt completely betrayed by Harry’s memoir (Spare). They’re not talking to Harry and Meghan, and they’re certainly not about to start when Catherine is at her most vulnerable.

Charles, “caged lion”, ready to work, while William worries

Sunday time details a King Charles eager to get back to work and, to use non-royal parlance, kick cancer’s ass.

“He’s been frustrated because he still has a lot to accomplish,” a source close to Charles told the newspaper of his retreat from public life following his cancer diagnosis in February. His return to work last week, caring for cancer patients in London, was widely seen as a success, making Charles more “approachable”. The source said: “He holds himself to very high standards of public service and genuinely feels he is letting people and organizations down if he is not there to carry out all these public parts of his official role . »

Another friend said: “He’s a f***ing lion in a cage, who makes everyone run in circles if he’s stuck at home. » Prince William worries about the pace of his “workaholic” father. A source close to the prince told Times: “He wants to make sure his father balances his recovery. He knows his father loves to work, but he worries about him.

Charles’ summer work schedule begins with the palace garden party this Wednesday, then perhaps with Harry, then with the Chelsea Flower Show, after which he hopes to travel to Normandy on June 6 to commemorate the 80th birthday of the landing, probably with William. . After that, Charles hopes to attend the wedding of his godson, the Duke of Westminster, followed by Trooping the Color, the Order of the Garter, Royal Ascot, a Japanese state dinner, and then hopefully to travel to Scotland for a series of engagements there. An aide told the Times that Charles’s diary “will be carefully calibrated with enough downtime so that it is not too exhausting.”

A friend said Charles was determined to cement a legacy. “Some might think he’s trying to pedal twice as hard because he’s aware that time is running out in front of him, but he’s like that anyway. His free time away from public life has been used productively, allowing him to continue thinking about the things he wants to do.

In letters to friends, Charles referred to his “somewhat deteriorating health”, although the correspondence was “full of light”, one recipient told the Sunday hours. Charles describes his “determination” to recover.

A friend told the newspaper: “I hear a determination that he doesn’t want to let himself slow down, a pragmatic acceptance of the changes that have had to be made to his program and an absolute desire to get back at full speed. »

Meanwhile, William’s friends say that despite his wife and father being seriously ill, his “humor is still there” and “he’s in good shape”, especially after Kate publicly announced his cancer diagnosis. A source close to the Welsh told Times: “There is a huge sense of relief that the family got the privacy and peace they were asking for. He continues to do his best to try to balance the support of his wife, family and father with his public duty as Prince of Wales. But of course, since the start of the year, his family has been at the forefront of his concerns.

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A friend said of William’s public appearances during the feverish weeks of speculation leading up to Kate’s announcement: “I don’t know how he managed to keep doing all this, knowing what he was going through, when the world ridiculed him and threw shit at him. woman while undergoing chemotherapy. This is a testament to his character, his courage and his determination to go out there and do the job that is expected of him. He took most of it on the chin and continued.

A friend of Charles and Queen Camilla told the Times that the royal family had been somewhat shaken by the double cancer diagnoses of Charles and Kate Middleton. “It’s a year that no one could have predicted. Just when you think royal life is becoming predictable, they both have a crown on their heads, the family settles into a rhythm, the middle son doesn’t drop too many bombs – and then suddenly, a Absolute explosion occurs and vomits out your entire plans. This family simply has more drama than an episode of (popular British soap opera) EastEnders.”

A hug for Charles

Charles’ emphatic return to public life as he receives cancer treatment continued on Friday when he received a big warm hug from his niece Zara Tindall, Princess Anne’s daughter.

Charles and Zara were both attending the Royal Windsor Horse Show, the Telegraph reported, with the royal group including Lord Soames, comedian Rory Bremner, Jackie Stewart, the former racing driver, and Ben Wallace, the former British Defense Secretary.

On Tuesday, Charles marked his return to work with a visit to the Macmillan Cancer Center at University College Hospital, where he met and spoke with other cancer patients, hoping to highlight the ability to continue living while being treated for cancer. To a patient who was due to receive treatment later that day, Charles said: “I know the feeling. »

A friend of Charles told The Daily Beast of his return to work: “He was so happy to be back. You could see the satisfaction written all over his face. This is what he was literally born to do, after all.

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Another source, a former Buckingham Palace staffer who worked for the king, said: “It (the period since his cancer diagnosis) must have been the most difficult time of his life. I’m sure he’ll be exhausted on one level, but absolutely invigorated and excited on another.

On Wednesday, Charles received the coronation scroll at Buckingham Palace, which he examined with Queen Camilla. The scroll is an official document of the coronation ceremony of Charles on 6 May 2023. The original coronation scroll was made for the coronation of Edward II and Queen Isabella in 1308.

Home repairs

Could the king’s return to work be linked to what looks very much like a new move to move Prince Andrew out of the lavish home, Royal Lodge, he shares with Fergie?

A story in the Mirror Today he dramatically alleges that Royal Lodge “appears to be falling apart and is in desperate need of repair”, and claims it could breathe new life into the King’s well-known ambition to remove Andrew from the property. 30 rooms and 90 acres and to give it to his son, Guillaume.

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Their pictorial testimony seems to be limited to a photo of part of an exterior wall where a small piece of plaster seems to have come loose.

Anyone who wants Andrew to move out needs to try harder if the pretext is abandonment of the property. The Royalist predicts that Andrew, who has a wrought iron lease on the property with the Crown Estate and plenty of wealthy friends only too happy to lend a helping hand, is going nowhere.

The biggest question: Why on earth does Charles’ camp, after losing this argument once, want to take it up again?

How Camilla became queen, not queen consort

The plan was that Camilla would be known as Queen Consort after the death of Queen Elizabeth, but as King Charles’ coronation approached, some within Camilla’s office decided to have her addressed as “Queen” as soon as possible, a detailed report in the United Kingdom. Times revealed.

Camilla would have been “relaxed anyway,” the newspaper said. On the change side, there were those who thought the “consort” add-on was cumbersome and set a bad historical precedent, but within the king’s office there was concern about the public reaction if it simply call her queen.

A royal source told the newspaper: “There was never a set timetable for when or if this would happen and there were certainly divergent views among courtiers within the household. Above all, the Queen (Camilla) was relaxed in any case and thought it would happen organically.

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The document traces Camilla’s title transitions from Princess Consort to Her Royal Highness (not Her…