London:

Britain’s King Charles is doing “extraordinarily nicely”, his spouse Queen Camilla mentioned on Thursday, in her first public engagement because the 75-year-old monarch was identified with most cancers.

Chatting with a well-wisher at a charity live performance at Salisbury Cathedral in southern England, Camilla mentioned Charles was touched by the messages of help from the general public.

“He is doing extraordinarily nicely underneath the circumstances,” she mentioned. “He is very touched by the entire letters and the messages the general public have been sending from in every single place. That is very cheering.”

Charles’ son and inheritor to the throne, Prince William, on Wednesday thanked the British public for his or her variety messages each about his father in addition to his spouse Kate following her current surgical procedure.

Kate, 42, underwent deliberate stomach surgical procedure on Jan. 16, after which spent two weeks in hospital recovering.

Since then, Charles has undergone therapy for an enlarged prostate, earlier than Buckingham Palace introduced on Monday that subsequent assessments on the monarch had revealed he had a type of most cancers.

With the king suspending public duties to bear outpatient therapy and Kate not anticipated to return to engagements till after Easter, the onus is on the remaining royals, particularly William and Camilla, to offer the general public face of the monarchy.

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