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Messages of support from all over the world have been coming in for King Charles, who has been diagnosed with cancer.

Buckingham Palace has not revealed what type, but confirmed it was unrelated to the enlarged prostate the British monarch had treatment for last month.

King Charles will continue with his constitutional duties but will step back from carrying out public engagements.

The King has told his family about the diagnosis, including his estranged younger son Prince Harry who is due to visit from the United States.

Simon Lewis was the communications secretary for the late Queen between 1998-2000. He told Newsday: 鈥淚鈥檝e been observing the King in his first year and I鈥檝e been very surprised and impressed about the openness of his style鈥�The late Queen鈥檚 father, people didn鈥檛 even know he had lung cancer and there were episodes when I was at the palace and members of the family being hospitalised and very little was said. At that time it seemed absolutely right. Now it doesn鈥檛.鈥�

He added: 鈥淪o many men will be thinking here鈥檚 someone very high profile who鈥檚 talking openly first of all (about) a prostate condition, which a lot of men suffer from and secondly, cancer, which one in two of us gets so I can only see good coming from this.鈥�

(Picture: Shows King Charles III with Queen Camilla leaving The London Clinic on January 29, 2024, where he had been receiving treatment for an enlarged prostate. Credit: Karwai Tang via Getty Images.)

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