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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray

‘Huge blow’: King Charles’s Highgrove neighbours saddened by cancer news

Michael Dolan, 75, sat with a coffee in the market square.
Michael Dolan, 75, who works in Tetbury and is the same age as King Charles, said he felt sorry for Prince William as well. Photograph: Stephen Shepherd/The Guardian

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.

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