News of King Charles III’s recent cancer diagnosis rings loudly of the Alanis Morissette song ‘Ironic’.

Imagine your whole future career being preordained for you from birth, for your entire life – only for you to wait to take it on for nigh on 50 years, then to find out your health could fail your destiny.

I hope the King receives swift treatment and enjoys a speedy recovery so he can get back to the full-time role the British throne dictates.

Susan Williams, Greerton.