EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Will King Charles cut back on meat after cancer treatment?

King Charles has long been one of the greatest champions of British meat and even tried to encourage a mutton revival.

However, he is now considering cutting back on red meat following treatment for an unspecified form of cancer.

There are claims that red meat may be linked to the disease.

The king’s stepson, Tom Parker Bowles, says his mother, Queen Camilla, had already reduced the amount of beef, lamb and pork she eats.

‘Yes, I eat meat, but I go easy on red meat – just like my mum,’ says Parker Bowles, food writer and Mail on Sunday columnist.

‘And the king, after what he has been through lately, is looking again at what and when he eats.’

Parker Bowles, 49, added in an interview with Saga magazine: ‘I’m not a nutritionist, but I know that food is part of the body’s ‘medicine’. He knows when he has the right stuff.”

Buckingham Palace has never disclosed which form of cancer the king suffered from. He underwent a hospital procedure in January for an enlarged prostate, which “was identified as a separate area of ​​concern.”

Later tests revealed a form of cancer, for which he has been receiving treatment ever since.

A spokesperson said in February that he had chosen to share his diagnosis “to avoid speculation and in the hope that it would increase public understanding for everyone around the world affected by cancer.”

Three years ago, the king, a renowned environmental activist, urged people to eat less meat and dairy products.

However, that was a way to reduce global CO2 emissions and tackle the climate crisis, and had nothing to do with nutritional problems.

Guidelines from Cancer Research UK state that there is a direct correlation between processed meat and the disease, but say the link between red meat and cancer is unproven.

“Eating a lot of processed meat can increase the risk of colon cancer,” it says. ‘We know for sure that processed meat causes cancer.

‘We are as confident about this link as we are about other proven causes of cancer, such as tobacco and alcohol.

King Charles is now considering cutting back on red meat following his treatment for an unspecified form of cancer. Pictured: King Charles and Queen Camilla help cook sausages during a community barbecue at Parramatta Park in Sydney, October 22, 2024

‘Red meat has been identified as a likely cause of cancer. This means there is a lot of good evidence of a link between eating red meat and some types of cancer, but we need a few more best-quality studies to be sure.”

Parker Bowles added in the interview that the Queen is an avid viewer of Jeremy Clarkson’s Prime Video program Clarkson’s Farm.

“Mum is a big fan of Clarkson’s Farm, which is putting British farming back in the spotlight,” he says.

‘It’s a tough, 24-hour, thankless job that often makes no sense. How bizarre it is that someone like Jeremy Clarkson has pointed out that things need to change.”

Honest advice for Freud

He was hailed as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century, but even Lucian Freud needed approval from a fellow artist.

His novelist Esther Freud reveals that her father sought the opinions of famed German artist Frank Auerbach, who died earlier this month at the age of 93.

Lucian Freud is depicted. His novelist daughter Esther Freud reveals her father sought the opinions of famed German artist Frank Auerbach, who died earlier this month at the age of 93

Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child, often spent nights with Freud in Soho in the 1950s.

“My father admired him greatly and sought his approval for every completed work,” says Esther.

Of his death, she says, “It feels like the end of an era – and what an era it was.”

How a screen kiss from Lily enchanted Ade

Lily James once imagined herself chatting in Rome with married star Dominic West, and seems to have a spellbinding effect on aging actors.

Adrian Edmondson, 67, who played Lily’s father in the 2016 BBC adaptation of War And Peace, is still dining on the kiss he received from the 35-year-old actress.

Lily James (pictured) seems to have a mesmerizing effect on aging actors

Adrian Edmondson, 67 (pictured), who played Lily’s father in the 2016 BBC adaptation of War And Peace, still savors the kiss he received from the actress, 35

“My character died and had a big funeral,” he explains. ‘I was in a big Russian Orthodox church and they were waving incense and I was lying there in an open coffin.

“Lily James came over and blubbered over me and kissed me.” Edmondson adds: ‘That was actually quite fun. I think I’ll get that again.’

Judge’s Podcast Revelation

High Court judge Sir Nicholas Mostyn, divorce lawyer for Sir Paul McCartney and Princess Diana, remembers taking his dachshund to work.

High Court judge Sir Nicholas Mostyn, divorce lawyer for Sir Paul McCartney and Princess Diana, remembers taking his dachshund to work. In the photo: Princess Diana

In the Movers And Shakers podcast, Mostyn says: ‘The courtroom was packed. Everyone stood up and Bilbo started barking. I said, “Sit!” and everyone sat down.’

Jude Law’s therapy tip

Did Jude Law Marry Phillipa Coan to Afford a Therapist?

“Phil is a psychologist,” the 51-year-old star of The Talented Mr Ripley explains.

Pictured: Jude Law and his wife Phillipa Coan, psychologist

“So we enjoy a very healthy relationship where we talk a lot about how we’re feeling, our relationships with friends, with our families… she has a beautiful perspective on that.

“I think in middle age you have to start thinking: What are the patterns that I have created?”

The role that eluded Esther’s girl

That’s life, I guess. Dame Esther Rantzen’s daughter has revealed she wanted to play her mother in One Life, a film about ‘British Schindler’ Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before the Second World War.

Samantha Spiro plays Esther Rantzen in One Life; a 2023 biographical drama based on the true story of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton

Esther Rantzen with her daughter Rebecca Wilcox after being made a Dame at the Princess Royal

TV presenter Rebecca Wilcox says: ‘I auditioned to play my mother but didn’t get the part. I must have been terrible.’

The role of Rantzen, who surprised Winton on live television with the then adult children he saved, was won by Samantha Spiro.

Wilcox adds: “A fantastically talented actress got the part. And I’m not bitter at all.’

Lord Snape’s fiery tongue

The House of Lords is normally a place of courtly manners, but things got tense during a railway debate.

Former Labor MP Lord Snape (pictured) turned red in the face as two younger Conservatives got under his skin

Former Labor MP Lord Snape, 82, turned red in the face as two younger Conservatives got under his skin.

Snape accused Lord Moylan, 68, of spouting ‘absolute nonsense’ and being ‘deceitful and inaccurate – he keeps repeating the same nasty things’.

The old class warrior also shouted that a 10pm debate would be ‘past Lord Gascoigne’s bedtime’. Compared to some of the Lords’ blunt old tuskers, Gascoigne, at 41, is just a pincer.