Royal family’s cancer diagnoses echo Queen Elizabeth’s ‘annus horribilis’

King Charles has said he is 'so proud' of the Princess of Wales for her courage in speaking out about her cancer diagnosis. Photograph: Chris Jackson/PAWhen the late Queen Elizabeth stood up to give a speech marking 40 years on the throne, in June 1992, she conceded to the assembled dignitaries, and the watching nation, that her family had had an “annus horribilis”.

In 1992, the revelations included the release of salacious details about the troubled private lives of Diana and Charles, the Prince and Princess of Wales; the separation of the queen’s son Prince Andrew and the divorce of the queen’s daughter, Princess Anne, and the fire that had raged through Windsor Castle.

Friday’s statement addresses the legitimate concerns about transparency head-on, explaining that her condition was initially believed not to be cancerous and that she and Prince William wanted time to explain the news to their children. Her diagnosis, and the king’s, came less than a year after the lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey in which the king was anointed, at the age of 74, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and which the family may have hoped would usher in a new era of stability.

Just a few months earlier, in January, he had published a brutally revealing memoir, Spare, which included allegations that he and his brother had once come to blows, as well as less-than-edifying details about losing his virginity.

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