has revealed the King is “getting better”, before joking with guests at a royal engagement: “Well, he would be if he behaved himself.”
The Queen, 76, has been frank in her view that the King should slow down following his cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
But the King has appeared in high spirits after throwing himself back into public life following the greenlight by doctors last month.
The King appeared in a buoyant mood on a visit to the Royal Opera House last night as he made a surprise appearance – which came a week after claims he snubbed Prince Harry twice on his visit to the UK.
The Duke of Sussex spent three days in his home country for the first time since February and while many expected him to meet his father, this did not happen.
A representative for the Duke confirmed that this was the result of the King’s busy schedule, which has seen him attend five events in the past 48 hours.
The second alleged snub came when Buckingham Palace announced that Prince William was to be made colonel-in-chief of Harry’s old military regiment.
The announcement came while Harry was still in the UK, which many interpreted as a deliberate slight.
Queen Camilla shares update about King Charles’s health
The alleged comments come as the King attended five engagements within the space of just 48 hours – the most recent of which was a visit to the Royal Opera House last night.
The Queen Consort was in Rye yesterday for an event celebrating the area’s literary achievements.
Emma Guinness17 May 2024 09:19
King Charles delights the Royal Opera House with joyful appearance
King Charles was in high spirits at last night’s Royal Opera House engagement and even took to the stage at the end of the special gala performance.
This was in tribute to the venue’s outgoing music director, Sir Antonio Pappano, who was delighted by the Monarch’s kind words.
“He was just so generous in his praise, and genuinely so, and that means everything, he loves music,” he said.
Emma Guinness17 May 2024 09:00
King Charles visits Royal Opera House
This marked the Monarch’s fifth engagement in just two days following his return to work at the end of April.
He was allowed to continue with his public-facing duties after medics declared that he had made sufficient progress in his ongoing cancer treatment.
Last night’s performance was in tribute to the venue’s outgoing music director, Sir Antonio Pappano.
Emma Guinness17 May 2024 08:40
Queen Camilla giving up real fur? This is what leadership is all about
When I started campaigning for animal rights as a teenager in the 1980s, I was really inspired by an iconic poster created by anti-fur campaigners. Alongside an image of a smartly dressed woman holding a bloody fur coat was a corker of a slogan: “It takes up to 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat. But only one to wear it.”
If you’d told me back then that we’d still be discussing the issue four decades on, I wouldn’t have believed you. Surely this vain cruelty would have been eradicated long before 2024?
Holly Evans17 May 2024 07:00
Unseen photographs of royal family go on display at new Buckingham Palace exhibition
The oldest-surviving colour photographic print of a royal family member and an image marking Princess Kate’s 40th birthday are among those set to be displayed in the new exhibition.
Due to open at Buckingham Palace on Friday, Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography at the King’s Gallery will also contain works by the likes of Dorothy Wilding, Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz, David Bailey, Andy Warhol and Rankin.
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Holly Evans17 May 2024 06:00
Queen Camilla promises to buy no more clothes with real fur
Buckingham Palace made the revelation in a letter to Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), where it was said that the Queen, 76, “will not procure any new fur garments”.
“This comes with the Queen’s warmest wishes,” the palace added.
Holly Evans17 May 2024 05:00
Prince Harry’s memoir Spare beaten to top gong by puzzle book at British Book Awards
Prince Harry’s bombshell memoir ‘Spare’ has been beaten in every category it was nominated for at the British Book Awards.
A puzzle book, children’s writer, comedian, and a former MP were among the winners that claimed victory over the duke at Monday night’s awards.
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Holly Evans17 May 2024 04:00
Roman Kemp on working with Prince Harry and Kate Middleton: ‘You never really see a princess in her socks’
The presenter and former host of Capital Radio’s Breakfast Show has become known as a vocal advocate for men’s mental health in recent years, fronting awareness campaigns and documentaries.
His 2021 film Our Silent Emergency, which explores the urgent issue of young men’s mental health and the prevalence of male suicide, was met with acclaim and is now shown to children in schools.
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Holly Evans17 May 2024 03:00
Might Harry and Meghan’s original Megxit plan actually have worked?
It may not have been an official “royal visit”, but anyone watching the coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex visiting Nigeria, in aid of the Invictus Games and its charitable foundation, could have been forgiven for thinking that it was.
The pair have some celebrity and fame, and no one, leastways outside palace circles, seems all that fussed about whether the pair are classified as “working” or “non-working” royals: “Megmania” gripped this part of west Africa, in any case.
Harry is a Prince, his wife is a duchess, his dad is the king and head of the Commonwealth, and no amount of alienation or briefing can alter that. In Lagos State, he was given a prince’s welcome.
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Holly Evans17 May 2024 02:00
Prince Harry could be on rare royal US visa, expert says amid questions over drug use
Prince Harry may hold a rare United States visa reserved for heads of state and royal family members, a lawyer has suggested – amid questions over how the Duke of Sussex’s past admission of drug use sits in relation to America’s tight immigration rules.
The royal – who lives in California with wife Meghan Markle and their two children – is currently the subject of a legal battle brought by the right-wing Heritage Group to demand that the US Department of Homeland Security release his immigration file.
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Holly Evans17 May 2024 01:00
