King Charles’ Australia tour could put full recovery from cancer at risk, Queen Camilla fears
Concerns are growing over King Charles’ health as a gruelling schedule during his overseas tour threatens a full recovery from cancer.
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Queen Camilla and the King’s closest confidants fear the “workaholic” is putting his cancer recovery at risk by touring Australia in October.
The growing fears for the upcoming overseas tour come after the King kept a gruelling schedule this week travelling from Balmoral, to Southport, to London, and back to Balmoral.
Queen Camilla believes the King’s insistence on maintaining a full program of events leading up to an even busier tour to the southern hemisphere will actively harm his full recovery from cancer, according to palace insiders quoted by The Daily Beast.
“There has been a lot of positive spin about the king doing well, getting back to work and so on. But, you know, he has cancer. He is not well. He looked frail,” they said. “Camilla has been telling him to take a break but he is a workaholic, he won’t listen.”
The King left his summer retreat to visit the town where three young girls were killed at a Taylor Swift dance club before flying to London the next day, where he is believed to have received a round of cancer treatment, and taking a helicopter back to Scotland the following day.
“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,” the Queen’s confidant said.
“She wants him to slow down, she is afraid he is working too hard, and that’s before you even get to the Australia tour.”
Concerns have grown as King Charles intensifies his battle to have Prince Andrew removed from the Royal Lodge. Whispers around the palace suggest the King wants his brother out so the property can be given to Queen Camilla as a dowager house after his death.
The report comes as the King axed Prince Andrew’s private security team, which would force the Duke to speak millions of his own money to replace the 10-person private security detail at the Windsor home to avoid conviction.
“Everyone is speculating this means the Duke will have to leave the Royal Lodge because what other reason could there be to take his security away?” a source told The Sun.
“They are all working the final weeks of their contract till the end of October. It’s not thought anyone is being lined up to replace them. It isn’t a secret that the King wants him out.”
The timing of the security detail removal coinciding with the royal tour in October furthered the speculation that the King’s visit to Australia could be one of his last major international appearances as the British Monarch.
The King and Queen will hold engagements in the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales, before heading to Samoa for a Commonwealth summit scheduled to begin on October 21.
Friends of Prince William have already begun seeding the idea that the next, and maybe final, meeting with his estranged brother Prince Harry would be at the funeral of their father.
After that, Prince Harry would not be invited to Prince William’s coronation to avoid the “distraction and circus” his presence would bring, the friend added to The Beast.
“ I suspect that William will see Harry one more time in his life in the flesh — at their father’s funeral,” they said.
“Things are totally frozen between the two of them. It is hard to overstate how utterly William feels betrayed and hurt on a very personal level.”
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