This Tuesday, King Charles III resumed his public activities, three months after announcing that he was battling cancer, without specifying what type of cancer it was.
He visited a cancer treatment center in the capital with Queen Camilla. Television footage showed him smiling and shaking hands before entering the Macmillan cancer treatment center at University College Hospital in London.
©Victoria Jones/Press Association Images – King Charles III, patron of Cancer Research UK and Macmillan Cancer Support, and Queen Camilla, arriving for a visit to University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre, London, to raise awareness of the importance of early diagnosis and highlight some of the innovative research which is taking place at the centre. Picture date: Tuesday April 30, 2024. *** FRANCE ONLY *** – PRESS ASSOCIATION IMAGES/MAXPPP.
Britain’s King Charles III (R) shares a laugh with Cancer Research UK’s Chief Clinician Charlie Swanton (back R) next to a CT scanner during a visit to the University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre in London on April 30, 2024. Charles is making his first official public appearance since being diagnosed with cancer, after doctors said they were “very encouraged” by the progress of his treatment. (Photo by Suzanne Plunkett / POOL / AFP) – AFP.
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Charles III is still undergoing treatment for his cancer, discovered after a prostate operation in January, the nature of which has never been clarified.
But Buckingham Palace, cautiously optimistic, announced last Friday that its doctors were “sufficiently satisfied with the progress made so far” to allow him a gradual resumption of his public activities, adapted to his state of health.
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His commitments will be “carefully calibrated” in “close consultation with his doctors”, specified Buckingham Palace.
The King and Queen are also due to receive Emperor Naruhito of Japan and his wife Empress Masako in June on an unspecified date for a state visit at the invitation of the British government.
Other possible engagements – Royal Ascot, 80th anniversary of D-Day, Trooping the Color in June, traditional garden parties – will be subject to the advice of his doctors, closer to their date.
After the announcement of his cancer in early February, nine months after his coronation, Charles III suspended his public activities. But he continued his duties as constitutional monarch at Buckingham Palace. They provide in particular that he signs laws, meets regularly with the Prime Minister and validates certain appointments.
The palace regularly released photos or very short videos of him receiving VIPs, preparing a speech, or reading get-well cards.
Impatient to resume, according to his nephew Peter Phillips, Charles III treated himself to a brief walkabout after matins at the chapel of Windsor Castle on Easter Sunday.