King Charles III, 75 years old, has been discharged from the London Clinic after undergoing surgery last Friday for a «benign» prostate condition and after spending three nights in the hospital. The British royal palace announced this. The monarch has returned to his residence, accompanied by his queen consort Camilla.
King Charles discharged after the operation
A routine operation on paper for the monarch, whose health - at 75 years old and just over 15 months after the death of his mother Elizabeth II and his ascension to the throne after seven decades of waiting - inevitably keeps the United Kingdom in suspense. His Majesty had entered the clinic under the spotlight of the cameras, as if to send a reassuring message to his subjects. Accompanied by his inseparable Camilla, his second wife after the late Diana, now elevated to a pillar of the monarchy (from the «intruder» she was).
The entrance was preceded by a brief statement from Buckingham Palace: written to convey Charles's thanks «to all those who have sent their best wishes» and to express satisfaction that «his diagnosis is having a positive impact» - certified by the data from the National Health Service (NHS) - on an increase these days in tests and procedures on the front of prevention or early reaction to prostate diseases in the most at risk group, men over 50.
The consequences
The BBC had in any case as the operation would not have such an impact as to require constitutional adjustments of any kind on the prerogatives of the king as head of state. So no formal substitution, therefore, by the so-called dynastic State Council. An organism from which the heir to the throne William, busy assisting his wife in hospital and looking after their three children at home; and within which they have limited themselves to strengthening the role of the 76-year-old queen Camilla and princes Anna and Edward (73 and 59 years old), surviving siblings of the monarch in the «active» service of the Firm: all called to represent His Majesty in a whirlwind of external public commitments for a time that is still to be determined exactly.
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