SARAH VINE: In these 騒然とした, 苦悩-inducing times, this is a shock and blow for us all. Get 井戸／弁護士席 soon, Your Majesty. Your country needs you…
When the King left hospital last week, he looked to be in cheery spirits. Sure, he seemed a little 壊れやすい, leaning somewhat gingerly on the boot of his car as he walked around it ? but then he had just had やめる a delicate 操作／手術.
On Sunday, however, as he 迎える／歓迎するd 支持者s on his way to church at Sandringham, he looked a little いっそう少なく chipper. Perhaps it was just my impression, but he seemed to have lost 負わせる, his trademark 二塁打-breasted camel coat a little loose on him, his 直面する pale and drawn. Was he just taking a bit of time to 回復する? Or was there something more going on?
Sadly, we now know it’s the latter. While the King’s 手続き to 扱う／治療する an 大きくするd prostrate was successful, the medics have identified a new problem which will 要求する 緊急の 治療, putting him out of 活動／戦闘 for the foreseeable 未来.
必然的に, this comes as an unwelcome shock, not just for the nation, still very much in 嘆く／悼むing after the death of his mother, but also for the 王室の Family itself, which has only just been getting 支援する on its feet after a really horrible, painful few years.
There is a silver lining: By all accounts this problem has been identified 早期に, and should therefore 答える／応じる 井戸／弁護士席 to 治療. Still: Of all the challenges that could have 直面するd the King in the first 18 months of his new 統治する, this is perhaps the least 推定する／予想するd.
Charles was last seen waving to 支持者s as he …に出席するd a service with his wife Queen Camilla at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, Norfolk, on Sunday.
Because while it’s true that he （機の）カム to the 王位 as the oldest person ever to accede to the British 栄冠を与える (having also been the longest-serving Prince of むちの跡s in history), he has always been in rude health, 主要な ? like his mother ? a scrupulously wholesome, active lifestyle.
And にもかかわらず 存在 75, by the 基準s of the Winsdors that’s nothing. Both his parents remained active 井戸／弁護士席 into their nineties, and his grandmother, the Queen Mother, was 101 when she died.
Indeed, until last week he was planning to go skiing ? as he has done with gusto for many years ? with old friends in the スイスの アルプス山脈. That trip, 同様に as several other 公式の／役人 ones, has now been cancelled while he を受けるs その上の 治療 for this 明示していない new problem.
It’s やめる a blow. Not only to the 王室の Family themselves, and in particular to poor Queen Camilla, who must be worried sick; but to us all, and 特に so soon after the loss of his dear mother, our 激しく揺する throughout the １０年間s.
In these 苦悩-inducing times, with terrible, 騒然とした events taking place all over the world and at home, one feels more than ever the absence of Her late Majesty’s 静めるing, 安心させるing presence.
It also doesn’t help that the Princess of むちの跡s is herself convalescing after an 操作／手術 for an 明示していない illness. She may not be the 王室の who racks up the most 公式の／役人 約束／交戦s (after all, she does have three young children to care for), but her 否定できない 星／主役にする 質 is an invaluable 資産. 加える Prince William will 必然的に feel the need to spend more time with her and their children ? which will make him いっそう少なく able to take on some of his father’s 義務s while he 回復するs.
But what really makes this 最新の 後退 so 失望させるing is the fact that (against the 期待s of many) it was all going so 井戸／弁護士席.
Not only was the 載冠（式）／即位（式） a 勝利, King Charles has somehow managed to navigate the not inconsiderable challenges of 取引，協定ing with his brother Andrew’s 現在進行中の sex スキャンダル and his youngest son’s behaviour with almost zen-like 静める and fortitude.
And yet にもかかわらず these tribulations ? which also 大いに afflicted the Queen in her final days and months ? Charles has begun to carve out his own 身元 as King; an 身元 built very much on the same 原則s as those of his late mother ? 義務, constancy, 親切, compassion ? and 深く，強烈に respectful of her 遺産／遺物 (as it should be); but でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れるd by his own life experiences and passions.
When he was 発射する／解雇するd from hospital last Monday, the King appeared 安定した on his feet as he walked out of the London Clinic in Marylebone with Queen Camilla by his 味方する
Let’s not forget: Queen Elizabeth II was a girl queen who grew into the 役割; he had lived a whole life before that 栄冠を与える ? and that 巨大な 責任／義務 ? was placed on his 長，率いる. And yet, so far, he has borne both admirably.
To have to 圧力（をかける） the pause button on all that at this 早期に and 決定的な 行う／開催する／段階 must be 極端に 失望させるing for him. In fact, I would be so presumptuous as to say he will be kicking himself, since he is a man who feels his 責任／義務s acutely. I pity his doctors: He will make a t errible 患者, always 押し進めるing at every 適切な時期 to get 支援する to work in the service of the nation. But he must 残り／休憩（する） and recuperate, and not be too hard on himself.
For in the short time that he has worn the 栄冠を与える he has already earned the 信用 and 尊敬（する）・点 of the British people. 最近の 投票ing shows he has a 安定した 人気 率ing of around 70 per cent, with many people 存在 pleasantly surprised at how 井戸／弁護士席 he has settled into his new 役割. And he has in Prince William a loyal and loving son, in Princess Anne an 絶対の 激しく揺する ? and in Queen Camilla a woman who would walk over hot coals for him.
Let them （問題を）取り上げる the slack for now. And get 井戸／弁護士席 soon, your Majesty. Your country needs you.
