The King "remains wholly positive about his treatment", says Buckingham Palace.
  • Bobmighty@lemmy.world
    6515·
    2 years ago

    I love the people in here standing up for him lol. An absolute fuckton of people die every day. Basically every moment has human death in it. No one defending him cares a single wit about them, but they’ll get wound up over this old man dying of something many many people die of daily.

    Considering everything that’s come out about the royal family, I can’t find a single care in me for him. I feel more for the countless faceless strangers dying worse deaths. This old pampered fuck will die well in comparison. He doesn’t need any sympathy from me.

  • computerscientistI@lemm.eeBanned
    471·
    2 years ago

    The royal family, including Charles are big proponents of homeopathy. Let’s see how much homeopathy is going to help him now. I’m sure at least as much as those alternative methods Steve Jobs chose helped him, back then…

    • Sagifurius@lemm.eeBanned
      164·
      2 years ago

      Nah, he was doing his dream job the whole time, running a research farm and advocating for sustainable farming practices. Soon as he became king, he had to stop with the targeted advocacy.

      • set_secret@lemmy.world
        161·
        2 years ago

        he also advocated for homoeopathy…maybe that’s what he’ll treat his cancer with (i hope so)

        • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
          72·
          2 years ago

          I recently got the side-eye from a lot of people because I said that homeopathy is not the same as natural remedies.

        • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
          51·
          2 years ago

          Ah the Steve Jobs treatment method, maybe he’ll adopt the fruit diet. Shame Harry gave up his claim, he seemed like the one with Lizzie’s spirit

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    301·
    2 years ago

    Would be weird for the longest serving monarch to be replaced by the shortest serving one.

    Which raises a good question… who was the shortest serving British monarch?

    Oh, of COURSE there’s a Wiki for that…

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_monarchy_records

    "The shortest-reigning monarch was Lady Jane Grey who ruled for 9 days from 6 July until 15 July 1553 (although she was only proclaimed queen by the Lords of the council on 10 July). Her husband Lord Guildford Dudley was her consort for the entire reign, making this the shortest tenure of the male consort of a female monarch. Note: Jane’s reign is disputed.

    The king with the shortest definitively known reign was Edgar the Ætheling who ruled for 2 months, 12 days in 1066 before submitting to William the Conqueror. Some records indicate that Sweyn Forkbeard reigned for only 40 days in 1013–4.[7]"

    Queen Elizabeth II died 9/8/2022, so Charles has already been in 514 days. He’s good…

    • Pyr@lemmy.ca
      6·
      2 years ago

      And least he got to be king first :P

      I haven’t seen any new coins yet with his face on it. It may be the shortest run of coins with a new face. I’ve had the same face on my coins for my entire life, these will be the first with a new one.

  • Laura@lemmy.ml
    3215·
    2 years ago

    oh no anyway

    but in all seriousness I hope he dies that guy is a piece of shit

      • purahna@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        2 years ago

        give us one singular solitary good reason we should have empathy for this decrepit, cheating, silver spoon mouthed, tax leeching, sex pest, waste of money and attention

      • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
        42·
        2 years ago

        Nah its just a leftist echo chamber. They have sympathy for the working class, but are very prejudiced against the wealthy. Personally, I would guess Charles is a decent human being, like most people. Im sure hes done some shitty things over the course of a long and extremely public life, but pretty much everyone has. I disagree with the concept of royalty but that doesn’t mean I want all monarchs to drop dead. Not a lot of nuance on Lemmy.

      • T (they/she)@beehaw.org
        11·
        2 years ago

        I understand your frustration but I fail to understand why the need of empathy for a monarch of all people

  • nbailey@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    I just got my first Chucky Buck this weekend, we can’t switch to a new currency this quickly! Our economy is in shambles!

    • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
      41·
      2 years ago

      I have… I have also bribed the cancer, and I have also started to write the chant. I am thinking of doing a remix of the catchy Lizzie’s in a box with a Charley’s in a box but leaving the rest the same. I also think once he is gone the guy who got banned from having eggs in public in the UK should be allowed to have eggs agian.

        • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          2 years ago

          To summarize, a man Patrik Thelwell threw an egg in the general direction of Charley, the court ordered a 500 m restraining order (I will agree perfectly reasonable) from Charles and his wife, and the other is he is banned from publicly possessing eggs. That was late 2022, early 2023 he was arrested on suspicion carrying eggs. They also alegedly have counter terrorism following them.

          I understand that all in all this is quaint considering what the US would do if for example eggs where thrown in the direction of Joe Biden, Offically the sentence was a year of community service (along with the no eggs and restraining order) but it still seems beyond rediculous. and I would say what the US would do is incredably extreme. The restraining order and Community service would have been sufficent

      • Tangentism@lemmy.ml
        62·
        2 years ago

        Maybe you should go wash your mouth after all the bootlicking.

        The guy was born into an anachronistic system where he has had absolute privilege and his family indulged in political interference (a lot to their own benefit) despite claiming to just be impartial figureheads.

        Last summer a football player had to campaign to keep free school meals going through the summer so millions of kids in poverty could fucking eat.

        So what if some privilege cunt has arse cancer?

        • HandBreadedTools@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Lmfao apparently it’s “bootlicking” to point out a criminally online take. I, for one, don’t think people should be judged based on circumstances out of their control, like where or when they were born. There are plenty of reasons to dislike the dude, like no really there are so god damn many, but him being born into it is not one of them.

          I’m not even saying you shouldn’t be pleased to see his death, just that making jokes about the suffering that occurs from cancer is a take so distant from reality of course you’ll only see it online. If you are genuinely pleased by hearing about someone’s cancer diagnosis, you should really do some self evaluation.

          If you think him dying from that will purge the UK of the monarchy, I have a bridge to sell you. There are actual things you could do to help end it, the original comment I replied to isn’t one.

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Could this new development mean that it is possible that his reign may not be a bit shorter than his mother’s?

    • systemguy_64@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      I dunno if we want to see a 142 year old Charles. We saw how decrepit Phillip looked by the 2000s, and then in 2021. Imagine what another 40 years will do on top of that.