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WINDSOR, ENGLAND - JUNE 7: King Charles III attends the Royal Windsor Flower Show at Windsor Great Park on June 7, 2025 in Windsor, England.
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King Charles is making light of the topic of health amid his own internal crisis. The King just quipped with a veteran about his old age, and dropped a secret to living a long life.

In an event for a ceremony of keys outside Lancaster castle, Richard Brock had the opportunity to briefly talk to the Monarch. The 101-year-old D-Day veteran received some sage advice from Charles after saying that he looked “fantastic” at his age. The King said, “Keep drinking the whisky.”

“He (the King) just told me I was amazing for my age,” Brock said of the conversation. His son Tony Brock also recalled the moment, “He mentioned a nip of whisky and said to keep taking it.”

Related: Prince Harry Is ‘Damaging’ King Charles’ Legacy Amid Reports the Monarch Is a ‘Sick Man’

The unexpected health advice comes right after royal insider Camilla Tominey reported that King Charles’ cancer is incurable. “The talk now is that he may die ‘with’ cancer, but not ‘of’ cancer following a rigorous treatment program,” she revealed in The Telegraph. She also confirmed that King Charles’ 80th anniversary plans in 2028 are “tentative” due to his ailing health.

Other sources were scared for the future of King Charles because of how he has been responding to treatments. ”Charles is indeed a sick man, and he does have cancer,” an insider told NewsNationNow. “He also refused chemotherapy and decided on a less invasive treatment.”

It’s the complete opposite of what a royal aide said King Charles‘s health. He is dealing “incredibly well” with cancer, the anonymous insider told The Telegraph. “The thing you learn about this illness is that you just manage it and that’s what he does. Medical science has made incredible advances and I genuinely see no difference in him. As long as you just do what the doctors say, just live your life as normal as possible… that’s exactly what he is doing.”

Charles’ mortality has been put in the spotlight after Prince Harry dropped his bombshell interview where he pleaded for reconciliaton with his family. “Life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has,” the Duke of Sussex said in an interview with the BBC. “He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff, but it would be nice to reconcile.”

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