'Diagnosis makes him more relatable to rest of us'

WELL-WISHERS descended on royal homes to show their concern for King Charles yesterday.

- Robert Kellaway

Scores, determined to let Charles know he was in their thoughts, joined tourists at Buckingham Palace and Sandringham in a show of support for the monarch following his cancer diagnosis.

The King, 75, was advised to stand down from public duties while his condition is treated.

Nicola Roberts, 60, and her daughter Jacqueline Murray, 40, praised his decision to go public with his illness.

Outside Buckingham Palace, Jacqueline said: "Charles's diagnosis makes him more relatable to the rest of us.

"Other people have been affected by cancer and you don't hear about it happening to the Royal Family.

"It shows they get affected by the same things as the rest of us. It is very sad and we wish him well." Martin Harris, 43, from Northampton, was also in London.

He said: "It's a shame for the family more than anything.

"You think of the family like you would do your own family." He added: "Also it's good that they've found it early." were from Sisters Julie, 49, and Arlene, 45, moved to travel Belfast after hearing the news of Charles's cancer.

Julie said at Buckingham Palace: "We booked flights straight away.

It's a big shock. It's huge.

"He's waited so long to be on the throne and now this happens.

It's crazy." Julie, a nurse like her sister, added: "From a very young age, from the early 1980s, with Charles and Diana's wedding and then Andrew and Fergie...I just remember all their weddings and street parties. We grew up with that and all the memorabilia.