I'm John Batchel with my good friend and colleague Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs.

The King of England and part of Ireland and Scotland and Wales has made an announcement to his people.

That means us, all of us out here,

his people are no longer just the English, they're all people who have crossed the line

into cancer diagnosis.

King is announcing that his cancer is, he didn't use the word remission, but he did say

that he needs less of the remedies he's been practicing

these last months and perhaps more than a year now. We do not know what kind of cancer he has,

but it's threatening. It's a threatening cancer. All cancer is threatening. The king was upbeat. He was

generous. He was fair-minded. His voice dropped when he talked about his own diagnosis.

He talked about how people need to get tested, that getting tested early for what you have doubts about is the way forward.

It was an inspiring speech. It wasn't political, although it could be interpreted that way,

because the English system struggles with the NHS.

I understand that.

It's still, Gregory.

I thought the king presented himself relaxed,

given that he's been living with what could be argued to be a sentence of mortality this last year?

That's correct.

I think the King's speech, which he deliberately held only a couple of weeks before his annual Christmas speech,

which has become legendary throughout the British

Commonwealth of people tune in on Christmas morning to the Kings or Queen's speech.

But he made this a separate speech.

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