The British King Charles III has cancer. Buckingham Palace announced this on Monday evening.
The news sparked compassion and interest around the world. When Charles revealed at the end of January that he was undergoing surgery to treat an enlarged prostate, hits on the British Health Service's information site increased by more than a thousand percent. Charles isn't the only member of the British royal family to share a cancer diagnosis at the start of the new year. Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, announced via Instagram that she had been diagnosed with malignant melanoma.