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Anti-monarchy Not My King protesters demonstrate as King Charles III and Queen Camilla ride past in their carriage to the Houses of Parliament ahead of the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords, London, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)Anti-monarchy Not My King protesters demonstrate as King Charles III and Queen Camilla ride past in their carriage to the Houses of Parliament ahead of the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords, London, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla leave The London Clinic in central London, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. King Charles III was in hospital to receive treatment for an enlarged prostate. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla leave The London Clinic in central London, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. King Charles III was in hospital to receive treatment for an enlarged prostate. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)The year began peacefully enough as Charles seemingly got on with the business of being king after celebrating his coronation in 2023 and mourning the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, the previous year.

But things became complicated very quickly. In early January, Kensington Palace revealed that the Princess of Wales, usually known as Kate, had undergone planned abdominal surgery, without specifying why the operation was needed. Just 10 days later, Charles was admitted to the same London hospital for treatment of an enlarged prostate.Kate, Princess of Wales looks out from her carriage as she travel to attend the Trooping the Color ceremony, in London, Saturday, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Kate, Princess of Wales looks out from her carriage as she travel to attend the Trooping the Color ceremony, in London, Saturday, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Social media went crazy over Kate’s condition, filling a vacuum of information on specifics with a tsunami ofEntertainment and politics collided through the summer and fall after Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, culminating in the vice president

in her campaign’s closing days.Rudolph playing Harris on “SNL” wasn’t the year’s only throwback —

returned to red carpets with passion projects (one a modern Roman parable and the other about cereal), while Heidi Klum and her husbandfor her Halloween extravaganza.