The moment BBC broke news of King Charles’ cancer diagnosis [Video]

Here is the moment the BBC told the nation that King Charles had been diagnosed with cancer.

The news was broadcast this evening just minutes after Buckingham Palace confirmed that the monarch had been diagnosed with the disease during his recent surgery for benign prostate enlargement.

The Palace has not specified which cancer King Charles has been diagnosed with but confirmed it was not prostate cancer, while messages of support for the 75-year-old have been pouring in from leading figures including Sir Keir Starmer and Gary Lineker.

BBC newsreader Jane Hill, 54, reported on the diagnosis shorty after the Palace had issued the statement on BBC News at Six, with TV critic and broadcaster Scott Bryan noting on X that the show did not follow its usual format.

‘There was no headlines or intro. They went straight to the story [sic],’ he noted on the social media site.

After the opening credits had finished, Hill …