A new book by royal expert Ingrid Seward says that King Charles sleeps in an oxygen tent to help him deal with a bothersome illness.
The book in question, called My Mother and I, comes out today and aims to look into the complicated relationship that the late Queen Elizabeth and King Charles had.
Some of the most important claims in the book are that the Queen was confused by her son’s lifestyle and many of the decisions he made because he knew he would one day be King of England as her oldest son.
Besides that, Seward said that Charles’s unique upbringing—his mother’s busy schedule as Queen meant that nannies took care of him a lot as a child—had a big effect on him later on.
“The Queen never understood Charles’s spoiled lifestyle and found it rather puzzling. Charles is not a selfish man by nature, but his life of being waited on often stopped him from thinking about other people,” says a passage from the book.
It was also told by Seward that the King sleeps in an oxygen tent when he has sinus problems.
“He doesn’t care about small illnesses, and to deal with his own sinus issues, he sleeps in an oxygen tent,” Seward writes.
“Being tired or oversleeping is not a good reason to miss even an hour of work, and he will never have a lie-in on a Sunday morning, even if he is sick.”
Since the 75-year-old monarch was just told he has cancer, there is, of course, rising concern about Charles. The King was in the hospital getting treatment for an enlarged prostate. But just a few days after he was sent home, Buckingham Palace reported that doctors had found cancer in his prostate.
At the time this was written, it wasn’t clear what kind of cancer Charles has or what stage he is in. However, the Palace did say that it wasn’t prostate cancer.
This week, it was said that the King is going back and forth between Sandringham and London while he gets care. Yesterday, it was said that he was going back to Sandringham by himself because he likes being there because it gives him more peace.
Robert Hardman, author of Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story, told BBC Radio 4’s Today program: “I would imagine we probably won’t see him at Westminster Abbey now.
“I’m sure there will be a statement, a message – he’ll want to engage with that. It’s moments like that when an absence is noted, but the day-to-day running of the monarchy will not really change.”
