\u201cIt\u2019s a fairly common thing to do among the British royalty, but in Charles\u2019 case expediency is necessary,\u201d says the source, who notes that \u201csome courtiers believe Charles\u2019 cancer is worse than they\u2019re making it out to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOperation Menai Bridge\u201d is set to include familiar protocols. When the monarch dies, Charles\u2019 body will be moved from the throne room at Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall. He will lie in state, and his official funeral will take place nine days later. He will likely be buried in the royal vault at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will have all the pomp and circumstance befitting a British monarch,\u201d adds the source.<\/p>\n
The update comes shortly after a separate high ranking royal insider told\u00a0In Touch<\/em>\u00a0that Charles is not only battling pancreatic cancer \u2013 a timely update given that he did not share what kind of cancer he was diagnosed with \u2013 but has a mere two years to live.<\/p>\n \u201cKing Charles is much sicker than the palace lets on and simply isn\u2019t up to the job of running his fractious family, the crown\u2019s business interests and fulfilling the daily duties of the monarchy,\u201d\u00a0the member of the royal inner circle revealed in early March<\/a>. \u201cHis cancer is eating him alive. He\u2019s very frail. The situation is desperate.\u201d<\/p>\n