King’s commitment to public service: How Charles has continued his royal duties despite ill health, hosting world leaders in London and attending Easter service, as Palace announces he will visit cancer treatment centre next week [Video]

King Charles has continued his royal duties while receiving treatment for cancer, including hosting foreign dignitaries and attending the Easter Service. 

Despite suspending his public-facing engagements, the 75-year-old has also fulfilled his constitutional role by hosting Privy Council meetings, reading documents in his red box and attending a weekly meeting with the Prime Minister. 

Today’s good news about his health means Charles will now return to a more normal schedule with a visit to a cancer treatment centre alongside Queen Camilla next week. 

It promises to be a deeply poignant engagement given his own cancer battle as well as that of his daughter-in-law, the Princess of Wales.

Charles is a workaholic who famously packs in ten to 12 engagements and meetings a day and spends many a night alone in his study, furiously writing letters and reading documents well into the early hours.