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King Charles<\/a><\/strong> is causing some uneasiness among royal watchers over a troubling confession he recently made about his health.<\/p>\n While attending the Maundy Thursday service at Durham Cathedral with Queen Camilla<\/a><\/strong> on April 17, the king made a strange comment to a fan who told him that he was looking well.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfacSIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox<\/strong><\/a>\ud83c\udfac<\/p>\n After the well-wisher told Charles he looked to be in good health, the 76-year-old monarch told her, “it\u2019s all smoke and mirrors,” according to a report from Hello!<\/a><\/p>\n The fan who had the exchange with Charles, identified as a woman named Pat Johnson<\/strong>, recounted the conversation to the outlet, revealing that Charles approached her to meet her Corgi pup, whom she was holding in her arms.<\/p>\n “He asked me if she was friendly and he asked me her name. I said she was named after the late Queen,” said Johnson, who named her Corgi “Lilibet” in honor of Queen Elizabeth II<\/strong>‘s nickname.<\/p>\n “I said he looked very well and he said,\u00a0‘You are very kind, it\u2019s all smoke and mirrors,'” Johnson recalled.<\/p>\n The unsettling comment from Charles comes in the midst of his ongoing cancer treatment<\/a>, after he was diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer in January 2024.<\/p>\n He was briefly\u00a0admitted to the hospital<\/a>\u00a0over “temporary side effects” from his routine cancer treatments, though he is said to have recovered from the adverse reaction quickly.<\/p>\n