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'It Reduced Me to Tears': King Charles Reveals the Heart-Wrenching Moment Behind His Recent Emotional Breakdown

King Charles III admitted to being 'reduced to tears' from a recent emotional experience.

King Charles III, 76, attended the premiere of Gladiator II in London, and during a reception beforehand at Buckingham Palace, His Majesty admitted to breaking down "in tears" during a recent experience.

The King admitted he was "very proud" of a new documentary about Queen Camilla, 77, called Her Majesty The Queen: Behind Closed Doors.

"It's very moving isn’t it?" the monarch told actor Damian Lewis, 53. "I think BAFTA [British Academy of Film and Television Arts] are interested in it."

Lewis played one of the King's notorious predecessors, King Henry VIII, in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, which found His Majesty candidly sharing his thoughts on his controversial ancestor.

"At least you can claim not to be related to him," Charles III joked.

The doc explores Her Majesty's first year as Queen consort. One telling moment in the program came when the Queen told a royal fan about her "problem" with the reigning monarch.

The film opens with the Queen visiting Government House on the Isle of Mann in March 2024, which followed the reveal of the King's cancer diagnosis the month before. Upon meeting a victim of domestic abuse, which Her Majesty actively advocates against, the consort was asked how His Majesty was doing.

"He's doing really well," the Queen said. "The problem is, trying to stop him doing so much. That... that is the problem."

Queen Camilla also spoke out against the monarch's packed work schedule in August, when she and Charles III were supposed to be on vacation at Balmoral Castle near the Scottish Highlands.

"Camilla would have been deeply unhappy that having only begun his holiday on Monday, he broke it off on Tuesday to do an incredibly intense engagement," a friend of Her Majesty shared then.

"Of course, she understands it was very important and there is no way she would try to tell Charles what to do, but it seems to be extraordinary timing," they added. "She wants him to slow down, she is afraid he is working too hard."

This led another pal of the Queen to state, "She has been trying to encourage him to slow down. Of course, he wants to keep cracking on, but she is afraid that doing too much could set him back."

The royal power dynamics between monarch and consort also led an insider to dish in early October, "The Queen truly is the power behind the throne, and the King honestly likes it that way, I feel. This is especially true this past year as he battles cancer. It is somewhat disheartening for the Queen to see the Princess of Wales beat her cancer, but the King is still in limbo."

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The New York Post reported on the King's emotional moment.