EXCLUSIVE: King Charles’s Team Pressured Media to Exaggerate ‘Good News’ About His Cancer
Veteran royal correspondent Robert Jobson exclusively tells The Royalist that the Palace pushed journalists to put a positive spin on the King’s health bulletins — but the reality is more sobering.
The Palace deliberately overhyped positive news about King Charles’s cancer treatment in December, one of Britain’s most respected royal correspondents has claimed.
Robert Jobson the veteran Fleet Street journalist dubbed the Godfather of Royal Reporting by the Wall Street Journal, and author of the explosive new book The Windsor Legacy, made the claim in an interview with The Royalist podcast, saying that Palace aides had leaned on journalists to present the King’s health bulletins in the most positive possible light.
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‘I think it was overhyped in December. I think that the Palace were over-emphasizing the “good news.” The press spokespeople were saying, “Oh, this is good news.” They were trying to say to the journalists at the time, “Don’t interpret it any other way. This is good news.”
‘The King is living with cancer. He will live with cancer. There is not any prospect, I think, of anything other than him living with cancer. And that says it all.’
In the interview I noted that it was hard for readers of British newspapers to understand the true story of the British monarchy at this time as detailed discussion of the King’s health is suppressed, both by privacy rules and by the King’s powerful press office. Indeed, I was removed from the international media pool by the King’s communications secretary after I noted the King’s cancer was incurable, a fact the Palace has since acknowledged. My expulsion was used as an example to intimidate other journalists into toeing the Palace line.
