King Charles made a full foreign tour amid ongoing cancer treatment

Next year, The King will return to a full overseas tour schedule.

Buckingham Palace has announced it is planning a full overseas tour schedule the King next year, despite his ongoing cancer treatment.

Speaking at the end of the Nine-day visit of the King and Queen to Australia and Samoasaid a senior palace official: ‘We are now working on a fairly normal looking full overseas tour program for next year.

“That’s a high point for us to end on, to know that we can think in those terms, subject to physician approval.”

The trip, which was the king’s first visit of this size and scope since then his cancer diagnosis earlier this yearhad originally included a visit to New Zealand, but this was ruled out on the advice of his doctors.

The palace official added: “I think it’s a great testament to the king’s commitment to service and duty that he was willing to come that far and he was incredibly happy and very, very determined to do that.”

The schedule, which saw the king and queen carry out up to ten tasks per day, was specifically tailored to rest periods and included only one evening event.

It is said that the King “truly loved” his time in Australia and Samoa and “thrived” on the programme.

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The senior palace official added: “It has improved his mood, his spirits and his recovery. In that sense, the tour – despite the demands – has been the perfect tonic.”

And yet the king’s mortality was never far from the center of attention, and even the monarch himself referred to it a few times.

Concluding his speech at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth meeting of the Heads of Government (Chogm), he said: ‘For my part, I can assure you today that, however many years God grants me, I will be with you and the people of the Commonwealth every step of this journey. Let’s learn Let’s be proud of who we are today.”

And at the traditional farewell ceremony in the village of Siumu on the last day of the tour, he said again: ‘I will always be committed to this part of the world and hope I survive long enough to come back and see you. .”

But for the palace, this is a positive reflection of how the king is ‘dealing’ with his cancer diagnosis.

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The palace official said the king was “a great believer in mind, body and spirit,” adding that this combination, combined with a doctor being with him to ensure he is well cared for, “makes for a very successful visit in these circumstances. “.

And his endurance is strengthened by the support of the queen.

The palace official added: ‘The king gains great strength from the queen’s presence, not least because she keeps it real.’

It is understood the king will resume his cancer treatment on his return to Britain after pausing it abroad.

In addition to the public engagements, the king’s constitutional duty continued behind the scenes during the tour in which the government’s red coffins were flown in from London.

And yet the journey was not without challenges; There was a confrontational moment in Canberra then Lidia Thorpe stormed to the podium shouting, “You are not my king, this is not your country.”

But the king remained “unperturbed”.

The palace official said: “He has been around for a long time. As always, he kept his cool and carried on.”

He believes that “freedom of expression is the cornerstone of democracy, and so everyone is entitled to their opinion,” the official added.

And when the Commonwealth Caribbean countries the question of reparations at Chogm he generally did not avoid problems, the palace official said.

“It’s very easy to run away from some of these problems. But the king is not one to do that.”