The photograph, which is very famous, portrays the future King Charles III on the knees of his grandfather, King George VI, who became the sovereign by chance after his brother’s abdication. A few months later, George VI would die of a tumor that his doctors had hidden from everyone, including the patient himself, to whom they had removed a lung euphemistically referring to it as a “structural abnormality.”<\/p>\n
Even the death certificate mentioned a simple “thrombosis.” The Daily Telegraph described the unusual choice of the king as “a sign of strength, not weakness,” and adapting to the times.<\/p>\n
Historians, years later, revealed the illnesses of his grandparents. And his mother Elizabeth?<\/p>\n
The doctors described “old age” as the cause of death on the death certificate, but in reality, the queen is said to have suffered from myeloma, as revealed by Gyles Brandreth, a friend of Philip for forty years, in the short postscript to his well-documented and non-scandalous biography “Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait.” The myeloma would explain the mobility problems of the queen in her last year, and the sudden weakness that drastically reduced her commitments and kept her away from Buckingham Palace in the last months of her reign.<\/p>\n
The treatments for the tumor would also explain the gigantic purplish bruise on the back of the royal hand, which was clearly visible to the cameras during the meeting with the then Prime Minister Liz Truss. The other Elizabeth, Elizabeth I (1533-1603), covered the marks of her smallpox with a precious Venetian ceruse that\u2014science has shown\u2014was highly toxic and probably killed her.<\/p>\n
The solution at the time was to prohibit portraits of the sovereign showing her as sick. La fotograf\u00eda, muy famosa, retrata al futuro rey Carlos III en las rodillas de su abuelo, el rey Jorge VI, quien se convirti\u00f3 en soberano por casualidad tras la abdicaci\u00f3n de su hermano.<\/p>\n
Unos meses m\u00e1s tarde, Jorge VI morir\u00eda a causa de un tumor que sus m\u00e9dicos hab\u00edan ocultado a todos, incluido al paciente, a quien le hab\u00edan extirpado un pulm\u00f3n refiri\u00e9ndose eufem\u00edsticamente a ello como una “anormalidad estructural”. Incluso el certificado de defunci\u00f3n mencionaba una simple “trombosis”.<\/p>\n
El Daily Telegraph calific\u00f3 la inusual elecci\u00f3n del rey como “una se\u00f1al de fortaleza, no de debilidad”, y de adaptaci\u00f3n a los tiempos. Los historiadores, a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, revelaron las enfermedades de sus abuelos.<\/p>\n
\u00bfY su madre Isabel? Los m\u00e9dicos describieron “edad avanzada” como la causa de la muerte en el certificado de defunci\u00f3n, pero en realidad, se dice que la reina sufri\u00f3 de mieloma, como revel\u00f3 Gyles Brandreth, amigo de Felipe durante cuarenta a\u00f1os, en el breve posfacio de su biograf\u00eda bien documentada y no escandalosa “Elizabeth: Un retrato \u00edntimo”.<\/p>\n
El mieloma explicar\u00eda los problemas de movilidad de la reina en su \u00faltimo a\u00f1o, y la repentina debilidad que redujo dr\u00e1sticamente sus compromisos y la mantuvo lejos del Palacio de Buckingham en los \u00faltimos meses de su reinado. Los tratamientos para el tumor tambi\u00e9n explicar\u00edan el gigantesco moret\u00f3n viol\u00e1ceo en el dorso de la mano real, que era claramente visible para las c\u00e1maras durante la reuni\u00f3n con la entonces primera ministra Liz Truss.<\/p>\n
La otra Isabel, Isabel I (1533-1603), cubr\u00eda las marcas de su viruela con un preciado cer\u00faleo veneciano que\u2014la ciencia ha demostrado\u2014era altamente t\u00f3xico y probablemente la mat\u00f3. La soluci\u00f3n en ese momento fue prohibir retratos de la soberana que la mostraran como enferma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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