DYING KING CHARLES DESPERATE GAMBLE

Betting it all on QUACK homeopathic cancer cures

CANCER-STRICKEN C King Charles is under the care of a royal doctor accused of being a quack and the manic monarch is desperately fighting his deadly disease with unproven folk remedies that could do more harm than good, reveal stunned palace sources.

Stubborn 75-year-old Charles, who has long promoted discredited homeopathic cures, is spurning modern medical treatments like chemotherapy and putting his faith in alternative therapies which include arsenic capsules and snake venom to battle malignant pancreatic tumors, according to a worried member of the royal inner circle.

"His Majesty's life is on -the line! This is not the time for him to experiment with debunked treatments," declares the high-level palace official. "You can't treat cancer with hocus-pocus. But the king is a lifelong believer in bizarre alternative treatments dating back hundreds of years.