{"id":1253596,"date":"2025-03-27T23:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/?p=1253596"},"modified":"2025-03-27T23:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:56:19","slug":"timeline-of-health-troubles-faced-by-the-royal-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/timeline-of-health-troubles-faced-by-the-royal-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline of health troubles faced by the royal family"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"hydrate-root sc-10wlkbs-0 cwDkqf\" data-component=\"Newsletter\" data-loading=\"lazy\" data-theme-name=\"base-light\">\n<aside class=\"sc-1230l3a-0 eUXYGk newsletter-component sc-1ge0fwe-0 beIDnE\" data-newsletter-key=\"receiveIndyHeadlinesNews\">\n<div class=\"sc-1ykbqwm-0 havphf sc-1ykbqwm-1 eVkPzQ\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-tuvb20-0 bGlmyU\">\n<div class=\"sc-1gqjrv9-3 bvDGrI sc-1gqjrv9-8 gdEmJb\">\n<p><h3 data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"sc-1gqjrv9-4 cpWrUg\">Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-1gqjrv9-5 sc-1gqjrv9-6 hKTEnu kztHlh\">Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email<\/h3>\n<h3 data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"sc-1gqjrv9-5 hKTEnu\">Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/the-king\">The King<\/a> \u201crequired a short period of observation in hospital\u201d after side effects from planned cancer treatment, and has cancelled his engagements in Birmingham tomorrow on medical advice, <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/buckingham-palace\">Buckingham Palace<\/a> has said.<\/p>\n<p>The King has now returned to Clarence House but has received medical advice to reschedule his planned engagements.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the timeline of the health troubles facing the royal family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Tuesday January 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kate is secretly admitted to The <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/london\">London<\/a> Clinic and undergoes abdominal surgery.<\/p>\n<p>She attends the clinic rather than King Edward VII\u2019s Hospital which is usually the go-to establishment for royal medical matters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Wednesday January 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2pm<\/strong> \u2013 Kensington Palace announces the princess\u2019s operation and says she will remain in the private hospital for 10-14 days.<\/p>\n<p>She was not expected to return to duties until after Easter, taking up to three months to recover.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/prince-of-wales\">Prince of Wales<\/a> steps back from his official duties temporarily to care of his wife and children.<\/p>\n<p>The exact nature of Kate\u2019s condition is kept private, but it is not cancerous and Kensington Palace says the planned procedure was successful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.25pm<\/strong> \u2013 Buckingham Palace announces the King, then 75, is to have treatment for a benign enlarged prostate and will be admitted to hospital in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>A source later says the princess is \u201cdoing well\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Thursday January 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Prince of Wales spends time at his wife\u2019s bedside, driving himself away from the back entrance during the low-key, private visit.<\/p>\n<p>A serious-looking William is seen leaving The London Clinic at about 12.35pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Queen says the King is \u201cfine\u201d and \u201clooking forward to getting back to work\u201d during a visit to the Aberdeen Art Gallery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Friday January 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King flies back from Scotland with the Queen and heads to his Sandringham estate in Norfolk to rest ahead of the procedure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Sunday January 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is announced that the King\u2019s former sister-in-law, Sarah, Duchess of York, has malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer.<\/p>\n<p>It is less than a year since the duchess, 64, was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Monday January 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Queen tells 86-year-old well-wisher Jessie Jackson that the King is \u201cfine\u201d, and thanks her for asking, while she carries out engagements in Swindon.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah, Duchess of York, meanwhile, describes her shock at having skin cancer but says she is in \u201cgood spirits\u201d and \u201cgrateful for the many messages of love and support\u201d, in a post on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Tuesday January 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kate\u2019s hospital stay passes the one-week mark.<\/p>\n<p>Camilla urges the King to take it easy.<\/p>\n<p>An insider told The Sun: \u201cThe Queen has told him he needs to slow down a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Thursday January 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King carries out behind-the-scenes official duties, meeting academics from Cambridge University at Sandringham House.<\/p>\n<p>He later arrives back in London from Norfolk ready for his treatment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Friday January 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King, with the Queen at his side, is admitted to the London Clinic for treatment for an enlarged prostate and also visits the Princess of Wales, who is recovering in the same hospital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Monday January 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King is discharged from hospital and waves at well-wishers.<\/p>\n<p>Kate leaves the clinic the same day to continue her recovery at home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Wednesday January 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Camilla says the King is \u201cgetting on, doing his best\u201d as she opened a Maggie\u2019s cancer support centre at the <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/royal-free-hospital\">Royal Free Hospital<\/a> in London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Sunday February 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King and Queen attend church in Sandringham, with Charles waving at well-wishers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Monday February 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kensington Palace confirms the Prince of Wales is returning to official duties this week, beginning with an investiture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6pm \u2013<\/strong> Buckingham Palace announces the King has a form of cancer, but not prostate cancer, and has started treatment as an outpatient.<\/p>\n<p>He will not carry out public-facing duties, but will carry on with behind the scenes state business and official papers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Wednesday February 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Prince of Wales speaks about the King\u2019s cancer diagnosis for the first time and thanks the public for their \u201ckind messages of support\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>William\u2019s words of praise, delivered during a fundraising gala dinner, also recognise those who wished the Princess of Wales well as she recovers from planned abdominal surgery.<\/p>\n<p>He tells the guests: \u201cIt means a great deal to us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, Downing Street and Buckingham Palace confirm the King will hold his weekly audience with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over the phone rather than face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Sunday February 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King makes his first public appearance since the announcement of his cancer diagnosis when he visits St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p>Charles, accompanied by the Queen, waves to the public before attending the morning service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Monday March 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Princess of Wales is photographed for the first time since undergoing abdominal surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Kate is pictured near Windsor Castle on Monday in the passenger seat of a car, according to TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>The news site said she was wearing dark sunglasses in the black Audi which was being driven by her mother, Carole Middleton.<\/p>\n<p>The photo is understood to have been taken by paparazzi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Tuesday March 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Army removes a claim on its website that the Princess of Wales will review Trooping the Colour in June.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets were being sold on the official website for the June 8 military spectacle, advertising an appearance by Kate, on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Sunday March 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Questions are raised that the first picture of the Princess of Wales to be released after her abdominal surgery may have been manipulated before it was posted on social media by Kensington Palace.<\/p>\n<p>The photo of Kate and her children, said by the palace to have been taken by the Prince of Wales in Windsor earlier this week, was posted to mark Mother\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph is later withdrawn by international picture agencies because of concerns that the image had been manipulated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Monday March 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Princess of Wales publicly takes the blame for the manipulated family photograph released by Kensington Palace as she issued a personal apology for the \u201cconfusion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kate said sorry with a statement on social media which read: \u201cLike many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother\u2019s Day. C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Monday March 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Footage emerges of the Princess of Wales alongside her husband during a visit to a farm shop in Windsor over the previous weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Tuesday March 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An investigation is launched at the London Clinic over claims staff tried to access the Princess of Wales\u2019s private medical records.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, the King holds a private audience with four Korean War veterans but does not attend a reception held by the Princess Royal and Duchess of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace in which Charles, in a speech read by Anne on his behalf, praised the British veterans\u2019 \u201cvaliant service\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Thursday March 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King holds audiences with new high commissioners from Tanzania and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Charles first holds an audience with Tanzania\u2019s top diplomat Mbelwa Kairuki at Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n<p>He then meets Singapore\u2019s high commissioner to the UK, Ng Teck Hean, and his wife.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Friday March 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>6pm<\/strong> \u2013 In a recorded video message broadcast to the nation, the Princess of Wales announces she is having chemotherapy after tests following her surgery found cancer had been present.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Thursday March 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King addresses a congregation assembled at Worcester Cathedral for Royal Maundy Service through a pre-recorded audio message, though he does not attend in person.<\/p>\n<p>Charles speaks of his \u201cgreat sadness\u201d in being unable to partake in the service and highlights his gratefulness for \u201cthose who extend the hand of friendship\u201d to those in need.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Camilla attends the service in his place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Sunday March 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King attends an Easter Sunday church service in what marked his most significant public appearance since the announcement by Buckingham Palace in February that he had been diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer and is undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Charles joins the Queen and other members of the royal family at St George\u2019s Chapel at Windsor Castle on Sunday in a smaller version of the annual gathering.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Tuesday April 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King returns to public duties, meeting patients at University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre in central London.<\/p>\n<p>His medical team is said to\u00a0 be \u201cvery encouraged\u201d by the progress he has made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Tuesday May 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first completed portrait of the King since his coronation \u2013 by Jonathan Yeo \u2013 is unveiled, and depicts the monarch bathed in red with, at Charles\u2019s suggestion, a butterfly at his shoulder, symbolising his metamorphosis from prince to King.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Friday July 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Charles plays a central role post-election, inviting Sir Keir Starmer to form a new government as he became the third Prime Minister of Charles\u2019 reign and the first Labour one.<\/p>\n<p>The King sympathises with his new PM, telling him you must be \u201cutterly exhausted and nearly on your knees\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the King writes privately to Donald Trump after the former US president survived an assassination attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Charles delivers the second King\u2019s Speech of his reign at the State Opening of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Sunday September 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King reached the second anniversary of his accession to the throne and the death of Queen Elizabeth II, with his health \u201cheading in a very positive trajectory\u201d, a royal source said.<\/p>\n<p>The source said Charles had coped with the past year with a \u201cdetermination to be as public as he was able\u201d to reassure the nation about how much he could still do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Friday October 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King and Queen Camilla began a landmark tour of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The six-day trip to Canberra and Sydney was to be Charles\u2019 first to Australia as its head of state, and came as he was continuing to receive treatment for cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors gave Charles permission to briefly halt the weekly cycle in order to fly around the world for his key visit Down Under, followed by a state visit to Samoa in the South Pacific.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Sunday November 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Queen watched the moving Remembrance Sunday service from home while she recuperated from a chest infection.<\/p>\n<p>Camilla observed the two minutes\u2019 silence privately as she followed the proceedings live on television at Raymill, her Wiltshire house, after doctors ordered her to miss the annual ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Thursday November 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King celebrated his 76th birthday, marking the occasion with a visit to a surplus food festival.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Tuesday December 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Charles welcomes the Emir of Qatar to the UK at a state visit at the start of December, with Kate joining them at Horse Guards Parade \u2013 another step in her journey back to her public role, and David and Victoria Beckham appearing at the state banquet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Tuesday December 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Queen told guests at the state visit that her chest infection was a form of pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>Camilla was suffering from post-viral fatigue and missed the outdoor elements of a Qatari state visit after being urged by her doctors to take more time to recover.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Wednesday December 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King used his Christmas address to pay tribute to the \u201cselfless\u201d doctors and nurses who provided \u201cstrength, care and comfort\u201d during cancer treatment for himself and the Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n<p>In his annual\u00a0message\u00a0to the nation and Commonwealth,\u00a0Charles\u00a0offered his \u201cheartfelt thanks\u201d to the medical teams who supported him and his family \u201cthrough the uncertainties and anxieties of illness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Monday December 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King personally honoured senior staff from his medical team during his treatment for cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Charles\u2019s GP Dr Douglas Glass, otherwise known as the apothecary to the King, and his physician Professor Richard Leach were recognised for their personal service to the monarch and the royal family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Tuesday January 14<\/p>\n<p>Kate returns to the Royal Marsden, the hospital where she was treated for cancer, to thank staff for their care, and announces she is in remission.<strong \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 <strong>Thursday March 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King \u201crequired a short period of observation in hospital\u201d after experiencing side effects from his cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Charles was due to meet ambassadors in audiences at Buckingham Palace on Thursday afternoon, but these were postponed, as was a trip to Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>A source described it as a \u201cmost minor bump in a road that is very much heading in the right direction\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The King visited the London Clinic, where he was treated for an enlarged prostate in January 2024, and travelled to and from the hospital by car.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 O artigo anterior foi obtido e traduzido do site internacional da celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to 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