“I was just longing to let it out,” Camilla said in rare public comments about the king’s 2024 diagnosis, which was not immediately revealed. Britain's Queen Camilla has spoken publicly for the first time about how hard it was to keep her husband King Charles' cancer diagnosis initially private. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• “I was just longing to let it out,” Camilla said in rare public comments about the king’s 2024 diagnosis, which was not immediately revealed. “But obviously I couldn’t.”S1

• Britain's Queen Camilla has spoken publicly for the first time about how hard it was to keep her husband King Charles' cancer diagnosis initially private.S2

• The Queen spoke on the emotional strain of keeping Charles’ diagnosis a secret and admitted to ‘longing to let it out’S3

• LONDON (AP) — Britain's Queen Camilla has said she knew about her husband’s cancer diagnosis days before it was publicly announced and found it difficult not to talk about his condition when she visited a cancer center during that period.S4