According to a statement released by Buckingham Palace on Thursday, the monarch needed a “short period of observation” in a hospital.
According to Buckingham Palace, King Charles III spent a brief time in the hospital on Thursday due to unidentified side effects from his cancer treatment.
According to a statement from Buckingham Palace, “The King experienced temporary side effects that required a short period of observation in hospital following scheduled and ongoing medical treatment for cancer this morning.”
The duration of the observation period and the nature of the king’s side effects were not specified. Since then, he has made his way back to London’s Clarence House, one of the royal residences.
This has resulted in the postponement of the monarch’s Friday engagements. According to the palace, Charles is “greatly disappointed” to have to miss the four events he had planned in Birmingham.
The palace said, “He offers his deepest apologies to all those who had worked so hard to make the planned visit possible and very much hopes that they can reschedule in due course.”
Although Charles was given a cancer diagnosis in February 2024, according to Buckingham Palace, little is known about the British royal’s health. The news was made weeks before Princess Kate was reported to be receiving “preventative chemotherapy.”
The type of cancer that Royal was diagnosed with and its stage have not been made public by the palace.
Earlier this year, Kate declared that her cancer was in remission.
In December, an insider told NBC News that Charles’ medical care is “moving in a positive direction.” According to the source, his condition has improved, but since the cancer is in a “managed condition,” treatment will last until 2025.
On September 8, 2022, Charles ascended to the throne after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, passed away. Prior to becoming the sovereign, Charles was the longest-serving heir to the throne, and she was the longest-serving monarch in the history of the United Kingdom.
