A mile down the road from Highgrove House, King Charles’s beloved country estate in Gloucestershire, his neighbours in the village of Tetbury said they have been taken aback by the monarch’s cancer diagnosis.
“It was a shock. I was very, very surprised last night when I saw the news,” said Michael Dolan, selling wicker baskets in the market square opposite the Snooty Fox, the pub once frequented by Prince Harry.