‘Charles is really, really sick’ – Funeral plans regularly updated after diagnosis

The state of health of King Charles III is gradually deteriorating, which is why Buckingham Palace officials are regularly updating plans for his funeral, US media reports.

King Charles’ health is “not good,” sources told The Daily Beast about the 75-year-old British monarch, who has kept his public appearances to a minimum since last February, when Buckingham Palace announced he had been diagnosed with cancer. .

“Of course he is determined [ο βασιλιάς Κάρολος] to defeat him and do everything for it. Everyone maintains their optimism, but he is really, really sick. More than they let on,” an old friend of the royal family told the American media.

King Charles has not revealed what cancer he is suffering from, although he has noted that it is not prostate cancer, which is one of the more treatable forms of the disease. Buckingham Palace is not releasing details about his health, but sources and political commentators have publicly noted that the king is “responding very well” to treatment, as reported by the New York Post.

The “Operation Menai Bridge”

However, aides to King Charles regularly update the several hundred document outlining plans for his funeral codenamed “Operation Menai Bridge”, after the suspension bridge that connects the island of Anglesey to Wales.

“Plans have been dusted off and updated, which is to be expected now that the king has been diagnosed with cancer,” a former Buckingham Palace staff member who maintains contact with King Charles’ courtiers told the Daily Beast.

This highly detailed plan was drawn up the day after Queen Elizabeth’s burial on September 8, 2022, in the style of her funeral. Military officials confirmed to the Daily Beast that the “Operation Menai Bridge” plan is regularly updated, but stressed that it is a formal process from which “it would be unreasonable to draw any conclusions.”

After all, for all members of the royal family there are updated plans for their funerals, which are named after bridges, such as Queen Elizabeth’s “Operation London Bridge”.

“Of course they’re looking at every aspect of ‘Operation Menai Bridge’. The Queen’s funeral was on schedule and set the bar high. It’s not about sentimentality, it’s just a job, which they take seriously,” said a senior official involved in planning royal funerals.