Unexpected, very sad, tragic. This is how they describe the news in the United Kingdom that startled them hours before between tea and dinner. More than one indigestible with the six o’clock bulletin – one of the central editions – on the BBC, which gave the statement from Buckingham Palace. The cameras immediately took to the streets to touch the mood. Many and many inevitably confessed downcast:

—”startled and very sad”

— “So soon after the Queen…”

— “A real ‘shock’“

Such a ‘shock’ that the subconscious betrayed some and almost He considered his king buried: “I am completely devastated. He ascended the throne so late, so ‘older’… but he was still very active. He was strong, he was ready to do many things…”. Thus, in the past, a whole university professor spoke. And, beyond the sadness, that is one of the most repeated reflections: all his life—74 years—waiting to reign and soon… bad luck arrives.

“Terrible. Of course, none of us know when our time will come,” commented one of the taxi drivers on duty in London. But no, that’s not the attitude. As has been highlighted by oncologists (the British media today pulls everyone who lets themselves): “If cancer is caught early, a lot can be done; “The important thing is not to be scared, to tell the doctor.” These have been the words of specialist Patricia Price for ‘Sky News’.

Transparency as the best medicine

Transparency is the message that, it is said, Carlos wanted to convey to his people: “It has been a very personal decision of the king try to be transparent, control speech, because he knows that it will generate a lot concern and (mis)information,” the former ‘Onda Cero’ correspondent in London explained in Al Rojo Vivo. And Carlos III “promised modernize the monarchy and this is an act along those lines: Transparency as the best medicine“said Pedro Rodríguez, professor of International Relations at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE.

Although there are also those who take the opportunity to recommend that you rest… abdicating in Prince William.