King Charles’s healthy lifestyle before shock cancer diagnosis

Ever since the late Queen’s death, King Charles has been extra vigilant about his health and lives by one important rule.

FROM guzzling beetroot juice to only eating organic food – King Charles has been extra vigilant about his health – especiallyfollowing the death of this mother, Queen Elizabeth.

While a fanatical workaholic, often working until the break of dawn, King Charles enjoys an active life, going on daily countrywalks at wife Queen Camilla’s insistence.

His kingly habits are plentiful. He doesn’t do lunch, he loves eggs mashed with salad, and a mutton pie when on a huntingtrip.

Like his exiled daughter-in-law, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, he only eats organic and does yoga.

King Charles is fan of healthy eating and fresh produce. Picture: Getty Images

Sources said he has also started drinking beetroot juice ahead of any flights, with the juice containing powerful antioxidantsbelieved to fight damaged cells and help with fatigue, insomnia and those battling cancer and undergoing chemotherapy.

Like his late mother — who died aged 96 and followed a balanced diet and “sensible exercise” routine, – the King takes greatcare of his health.

For his late breakfast, the King likes cheesy baked eggs, as the official Clarence House Instagram account shared in a postfrom 2020.

The list released for Charles’ 75th birthday also stated that the King prefers Darjeeling tea with milk and honey.

King Charles is all about exercise and sustainable living. Picture: Getty Images

King Charles’s swollen fingers - seen here during the coronation ceremony - have long been the subject of speculation. Picture: Sky News

The monarch loves to go on long solo hikes at Balmoral for fitness as a group of mountain bikers who unexpectedly encountered him discovered. Picture: YouTube

And in 2021, the King said he sticks to a heavily plant-based diet as part of his concerted efforts to combat climate change.

“I haven’t eaten meat and fish two days a week, and I don’t eat dairy products on one day a week,” he told a BBC radio stationin October 2021.

“If more did that, you would reduce a lot of the pressure.”

King Charles, accepting a gift of organic produce from a stall holder at a Melbourne farmer's market during an Australian visit, only eats organic food. Picture: AFP

The monarch, a passionate environmentalist, plants a lime tree at Buckingham Palace. Picture: Getty Images

In 2020, Queen Camilla discussed her husband’s health saying he was “probably the fittest man of his age I know.”

“He’ll walk and walk and walk,” she said. “He’s like a mountain goat. He leaves everybody miles behind.”

King Charles is fan of Darjeeling tea with milk and honey and famously sticks to a plant-based diet. Picture: AFP

As well as his love of walking in the fresh air, King Charles completes the Royal Canadian Air Force’s five basic exercises,referred to as the 5BX plan, twice a day.

The 11 minute routine designed for pilots who need to exercise without access to a gym includes simple stretching and pushups and has been known to help with his chronic pain from a back injury caused by years of playing polo on horseback.

Originally published as King Charles’s healthy lifestyle before shock cancer diagnosis