Watch: King Charles III Celebrates 77th Birthday With Buckingham Palace PortraitAnother member of King Charles III's family was recently diagnosed with cancer. India Hicks, the ceremonial monarch's goddaughter and second cousin, shared she underwent treatment for skin cancer, over a year after her godfather and Kate Middleton shared their own cancer battles. "The test results from a recent skin-cancer operation came back, and the news was...not great," the 58-year-old wrote on her Substack on Dec. 2. "Not dramatic-movie-scene not great, but just unsettlingly not great. The kind of news that makes the world blur slightly at the edges." India said "a worryingly fast-moving patch of cancer" was found in her lower calf. "I reacted the way most people do: a strange mixture of calm practicality and a little private terror," continued the daughter of Lady Pamela Hicks, 96, a first cousin of Charles' late father Prince Philip. "You tell yourself you're fine, you make tea, you answer emails, all while a small internal voice is whispering, what if it's worse than we think?" India wrote that she underwent an urgent Mohs procedure, in which cancerous skin is removed, in Miami.readKing Charles III Marks His 77th Birthday With New Portrait"The procedure itself was only relatively uncomfortable," she shared, per People. "You sit there with an open incision in your leg while they whisk the tissue to the pathology lab. And then comes the hardest part: waiting." India-who shares kids Felix, 28, Wesley, 27, Amory, 26, Conrad, 22, and Domino, 18, with husband David Flint Wood-later received the all-clear from the doctor, noting, "This time, I was lucky."Tibrina Hobson/Getty ImagesCharles' goddaughter-who served as a bridesmaid at his and the late Princess Diana's 1981 royal wedding when she was 13-learned about her diagnosis more than a year after the King himself and Kate were both diagnosed with cancer and underwent multiple treatments. The Princess of Wales shared this past January that she is in remission. Charles shared a rare, brief health update about himself in September while visiting cancer patients in a hospital in England. Per Hello!, Charles told a fellow cancer patient, "I'm not too bad" after being asked about his recovery. "Half the problem is detecting it, isn't it, in time," he continued, according to the 73-year-old patient, Matthew Shinda. "The great thing I think is they're getting better and better at dealing with these things." As the royal family pushes forward amid their health journeys, read on for more news about the royals...
Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty ImagesPrince Andrew Removed From Home by King Charles III After Giving Up TitleTwo weeks after Prince Andrew announced that he would no longer be using his Duke of York title, King Charles III confirmed that his youngest brother would also be removed from his home at Royal Lodge and stripped of his title as Prince. "His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew," Buckingham Palace wrote in a statement. "Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor." Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty ImagesPrince Andrew to Stop Using Duke of York TitleKing Charles III's youngest brother Prince Andrew confirmed October 17 that he will no longer be using his title Duke of York, due the the continued controversy over his friendship with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "In discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family, we have concluded the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family," Andrew said in the statement released by Buckingham Palace. "I have decided, as I always have, to put my duty to my family and country first. I stand by my decision five years ago to stand back from public life." Andrew continued, "With His Majesty's agreement, we feel I must now go a step further. I will therefore no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me. As I have said previously, I vigorously deny the accusations against me." Samir Hussein/WireImageKing Charles III and Prince William Make Rare Appearance TogetherThe monarch and his eldest son stepped out in October 2025 for the Countdown to COP30 event at London's Natural History Museum. The pair posed outside of the museum, before heading inside to meet with government leaders and advocates working to combat climate change. The event preceded the COP30 World Leaders Summit in Belém, Brazil, in November, which Prince William is set to attend on his father's behalf.
Dave J Hogan/Getty ImagesSarah Ferguson Dropped From Charity for Epstein EmailIn September 2025, the Duchess of York was dropped as a patron to Julia's House for a resurfaced 2011 email to Jeffrey Epstein in which she called him a friend. "Following the information shared this weekend on the Duchess of York's correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein, Julia's House has taken the decision that it would be inappropriate for her