Chris

Probably bowel cancer seeing as they were all up his bowels anyway. They won’t give details because it will lead to inevitable press features on post-op care and Fleet Street paparazzi trying to get pictures of the bulge under his shirt where he’ll be wearing a stoma belt. The last thing anyone wants is sidebars in the Sunday press discussing the King’s ongoing bowel care.

Pretty much the same as they didn’t elaborate on Kate’s ‘abdominal surgery’, for which read ‘hysterectomy’. They absolutely don’t want that discussed because as well as being very personal it has implications for the line of succession. Only obliquely of course, given that she’s borne three direct heirs to the throne, but again, Sunday papers, feature writers, blob pars …