Queen Camilla gives rare update on King Charles’ cancer battle

Queen Camilla has given a rare update on the King’s cancer battle amid fears for his gruelling travel schedule to Australia.

Queen Camilla has given a rare update on King Charles health as he undergoes treatment for cancer,.

Asked if the King was doing OK during a visit at the Dyson Cancer Centre at the Royal United Hosptial in Bath, Camilla told several cancer patients and support workers at the hospital that “yes, he is doing very well”.

King Charles has kept a busy work schedule during his summer break in Scotland, with reports suggesting Queen Camilla feared the “workaholic” was putting his recovery at risk by touring Australia in October.

Queen Camilla said King Charles is “doing well” despite fears his work schedule is risking his recovery. Picture: Getty Images

Before closing out the summer at the Summer Flower Show of the Royal Horticultural Society Aberdeen on the weekend, the King travelled 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 cancer recovery, 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.”

King Charles III reacts as he views tributes in Southport, where three girls were killed at a Taylor Swift dance club. Picture: AFP

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.”

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