Didn't expect him to be reigning monarch for long given his already advanced age and the fact males tend to live shorter lives, wonder if this will cut it even shorter?
Would be weird for the longest serving monarch to be replaced by the shortest serving one.
Which raises a good question... who was the shortest serving British monarch?
"The shortest-reigning monarch was Lady Jane Grey who ruled for 9 days from 6 July until 15 July 1553 (although she was only proclaimed queen by the Lords of the council on 10 July). Her husband Lord Guildford Dudley was her consort for the entire reign, making this the shortest tenure of the male consort of a female monarch. Note: Jane's reign is disputed.
The king with the shortest definitively known reign was Edgar the Ætheling who ruled for 2 months, 12 days in 1066 before submitting to William the Conqueror. Some records indicate that Sweyn Forkbeard reigned for only 40 days in 1013–4.[7]"
Queen Elizabeth II died 9/8/2022, so Charles has already been in 514 days. He's good...
Doesn't seem like liz has been gone that long... Time is weird
If you are generally morbidly curious about odds.
And assuming speculation is right that it's bowel cancer
Depends on what stage, but odds are given the level of care Royals get they've probably caught it at stage 1.
That's a 55% chance he's got 9 or 10 years for something else to get there first.
His father lived to 99 and he's currently 75.
A very old friend at 89 told me they had cancer a week before his 90th. They then laughed and said it was too late to the party.
They were right in the end, it was his heart a few years later. Thankfully he was still pretty active and living life until the last couple of weeks. Great guy, genuinely kind and wise. The phrase he gave for his memorial was "It's only sad to die if you haven't lived. I've lived."
It's been an ongoing joke for over a decade that his mum would outlive him, or that he'd drop dead within the year of taking the throne. Looks like it might happen, yay.
Didn't expect him to be reigning monarch for long given his already advanced age and the fact males tend to live shorter lives, wonder if this will cut it even shorter?
Would be weird for the longest serving monarch to be replaced by the shortest serving one.
Which raises a good question... who was the shortest serving British monarch?
Oh, of COURSE there's a Wiki for that...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_monarchy_records
"The shortest-reigning monarch was Lady Jane Grey who ruled for 9 days from 6 July until 15 July 1553 (although she was only proclaimed queen by the Lords of the council on 10 July). Her husband Lord Guildford Dudley was her consort for the entire reign, making this the shortest tenure of the male consort of a female monarch. Note: Jane's reign is disputed.
The king with the shortest definitively known reign was Edgar the Ætheling who ruled for 2 months, 12 days in 1066 before submitting to William the Conqueror. Some records indicate that Sweyn Forkbeard reigned for only 40 days in 1013–4.[7]"
Queen Elizabeth II died 9/8/2022, so Charles has already been in 514 days. He's good...
Doesn't seem like liz has been gone that long... Time is weird
If you are generally morbidly curious about odds.
And assuming speculation is right that it's bowel cancer
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/king-charles-brave-words-kind-32054314
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/bowel-cancer/survival
Depends on what stage, but odds are given the level of care Royals get they've probably caught it at stage 1.
That's a 55% chance he's got 9 or 10 years for something else to get there first.
His father lived to 99 and he's currently 75.
A very old friend at 89 told me they had cancer a week before his 90th. They then laughed and said it was too late to the party.
They were right in the end, it was his heart a few years later. Thankfully he was still pretty active and living life until the last couple of weeks. Great guy, genuinely kind and wise. The phrase he gave for his memorial was "It's only sad to die if you haven't lived. I've lived."
It's been an ongoing joke for over a decade that his mum would outlive him, or that he'd drop dead within the year of taking the throne. Looks like it might happen, yay.