{"id":126431,"date":"2025-05-23T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126431\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:47:08","slug":"royal-family-makes-major-health-announcement-amid-king-charles-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126431\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family Makes Major Health Announcement Amid King Charles\u2019 Cancer Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The British royal family made a major health announcement amid <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/king-charles-now-richer-queen-220242713.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:King Charles;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles<\/a> III<\/strong>&#8216;s cancer battle with news featuring <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/duchess-gloucester-know-birgitte-latest-133700906.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Friday, May 23, the official royal family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DKABhR6M5CE\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a> account shared photos from a ribbon cutting of a new transplant center at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, U.K.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>\ud83c\udfac\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/newsletters\/daily?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SIGN UP for Parade&#039;s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news &amp; celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>SIGN UP for Parade&#8217;s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news &amp; celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0\ud83c\udfac\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Birgitte, 78, is married to King Charles&#8217; first cousin, <strong>Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester<\/strong>, 80.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the update, Buckingham Palace revealed, &#8220;Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester has officially opened Edmonds Transplant Centre Birmingham at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. \ud83c\udfe5.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It explained, &#8220;The new centre provides all the services that patients would need in their transplant journey, with the Birmingham-based hospital being the most active transplant centre in Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Among the major organ transplants carried out at hospital are heart, lung, liver and kidney,<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The new centre will enable the hospital to continue to provide life-changing care to their patients,&#8221; the post concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The news of the organ transplant center opening came amid King Charles&#8217; cancer journey. In February 2024, the monarch announced his diagnosis with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/king-charles-cancer-know-monarchs-202006061.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:unspecified form of cancer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unspecified form of cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;His Majesty has today commenced a schedule of regular treatments, during which time he has been advised by doctors to postpone public-facing duties,&#8221; the royal family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/a-statement-from-buckingham-palace-5Feb24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shared in a statement;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shared in a statement<\/a>. &#8220;Throughout this period, His Majesty will continue to undertake State business and official paperwork as usual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Since then, King Charles, 76, has continued treatment and resumed royal duties\u2014but with plenty of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/prince-edward-takes-over-king-154732381.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:help from other members of the royal family;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help from other members of the royal family<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/prince-william-kate-middleton-share-145838955.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Prince William &amp; Kate Middleton Announce &#039;Wonderful&#039; News After Anniversary Trip;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William &amp; Kate Middleton Announce &#8216;Wonderful&#8217; News After Anniversary Trip<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/news\/royal-family-makes-major-health-announcement-amid-king-charles-cancer-battle-birgitte-duchess-gloucester\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Royal Family Makes Major Health Announcement Amid King Charles\u2019 Cancer Battle;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Royal Family Makes Major Health Announcement Amid King Charles\u2019 Cancer Battle<\/a> first appeared on Parade on May 23, 2025<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British royal family made a major health announcement amid King Charles III&#8216;s cancer battle with news featuring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[2636,55930,2637,55932,1760,55931,10145,5105,7710,519,448,55933],"class_list":{"0":"post-126431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-birgitte","9":"tag-cancer-battle","10":"tag-duchess-of-gloucester","11":"tag-edmonds-transplant-centre-birmingham","12":"tag-king-charles","13":"tag-major-health","14":"tag-queen-elizabeth-hospital","15":"tag-royal","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-royals","19":"tag-transplant-journey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114559585355343108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}