As fellow cancer patients are invited to Buckingham Palace tonight to honor the amazing work of locally based cancer organizations, His Majesty opened up in a message.

The King is himself still undergoing regular treatments as someone “living with cancer”, although aides say his recovery continues in a “very positive direction, as reflected with the very full national and international diary programme” he is undertaking.

Given that his daughter-in-law, the Princess of Wales, also received a cancer diagnosis within weeks of his own last year and received prophylactic chemotherapy, the personally written message has even more meaning.

Charles, 76, goes to great lengths in his message to personally thank those who so “selflessly” work to provide care, comfort, and reassurance to the 390,000 people in