Has This Year Changed King Charles?

Has This Year Changed King Charles?

From DYNASTY: The Royal Family’s Most Challenging Year by Vanity Fair

July 18, 2024 · 36 min

About this episode

The episode discusses King Charles III's cancer diagnosis and its impact on his public duties and the royal family's transparency.

When King Charles III announced his cancer diagnosis in February, there was an outpouring of emotion in the UK, along with some concern about what it would look like if the monarch not wasn’t able to greet his public on a daily basis. From the beginning, the king balanced his treatments with his duties, and privately he told his medical team that attending Trooping the Colour, the parade that marks his birthday, was nonnegotiable. By the time the June celebration rolled around, the king was out on the Buckingham Palace balcony with Queen Camilla at his side, and the clouds over the Windsors’ future seemed to part. On this week’s episode of DYNASTY: The Royal Family’s Most Challenging Year, hosts Claire Howorth , Katie Nicholl , and Erin Vanderhoof return to the unprecedented events of the year, and Charles’ embrace of radical (for royals, anyway) transparency. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

People in this episode

Hosts: Claire Howorth, Katie Nicholl, Erin Vanderhoof

Topics covered

  • monarchy
  • health
  • transparency
  • public perception
  • royal duties

Keywords

  • King Charles III
  • cancer diagnosis
  • royal family
  • Trooping the Colour
  • Queen Camilla
  • transparency
  • UK monarchy

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Organizations: Vanity Fair

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