United Kingdom, Sept. 4 -- King Charles has found "bits don't work so well" since hitting his 70s.

The 76-year-old monarch - who was diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer in February 2024 - officially opened the new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in the West Midlands on Wednesday (03.09.25) and joked about the signs of ageing as he met with cancer patients at the facility.

When 85-year-old Jacqueline Page told the king she was "wearing out", the Daily Telegraph newspaper reports he quipped: "Well, this is the terrible thing, as I'm discovering already, bits don't work so well do they once you get past 70."

The king told one patient, Philip Barnard, that there is "huge progress in treatment" and praised advances in medi...