King Charles was in Smethwick to officially open the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital.<\/p>\n
“I’m sorry I didn’t get here a few months ago,” he said to staff, about when his planned visit had been postponed in March.<\/p>\n
When he spoke to Mrs Page, she reminded him of a visit he had made to the Midlands in the 1970s – when he had flown a helicopter there.<\/p>\n
The King said the passing of time was “terrifying”.<\/p>\n
He also spoke to Matthew Shinda, who was receiving treatment for prostate cancer, and who told the King about his delays in getting a diagnosis.<\/p>\n
“I’m very sorry about that, it’s so frustrating,” said the King, who has encouraged men to get checked, after he had been diagnosed and had a procedure for an enlarged prostate last year.<\/p>\n
The King talked about advances in treatment, but empathised that for those currently needing help there was hope, but it could still be “down the road”.<\/p>\n
The men joked about whether they could have a drink in hospital – when Mr Shinda’s daughter said her father “likes his malts”.<\/p>\n
“Do they allow you a tiny dram of whisky occasionally?” asked the King. “I knew I should have brought one.”<\/p>\n
He also claimed it was “supposed to be very good for the heart”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles was in Smethwick to officially open the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital. “I’m sorry I didn’t get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-395160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115141706173418653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395160","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=395160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}