Queen Consort Camilla cancels visit after contracting ‘illness’

Queen Consort Camilla has cancelled a planned engagement because she has contracted a “seasonal illness”.

Camilla, Queen Consort. (Photo by TOBY MELVILLE / POOL / AFP)

Queen Consort Camilla has cancelled a planned visit because she has contracted a “seasonal illness”, Buckingham Palace says.

The King’s wife, 75, had been due to carry out a number of engagements including visiting a ballet school and a library in England’s West Midlands.

She was set to travel there on her own, with Charles otherwise occupied.

Camilla, Queen Consort (Photo by TOBY MELVILLE / POOL / AFP)

Camilla is believed to have picked up a heavy cold or something similar.

Doctors have ordered the royal to rest at home on Monday and Tuesday.

The Queen Consort and the King have a joint engagement lined up for Thursday, which she hopes to recover in time for.