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Queen Camilla issued a playful warning to King Charles after revealing her husband is “getting better”, joking to guests at a royal engagement: “Well, he would be [getting better] 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 on Thursday 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 this week, which has seen him attend five events in 48 hours.
Charles, Camilla and William to attend D-Day anniversary events in Normandy
The King, Queen and Prince of Wales will attend commemorative events in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Buckingham Palace has said.
Charles and Camilla will be at the Ministry of Defence and Royal British Legion’s (RBL) event at the British Normandy Memorial at Ver-sur-Mer on June 6, and William will attend the Canadian commemorative ceremony at the Juno Beach Centre, Courseulles-sur-Mer, on the same date.
The prince will then attend the international commemorative ceremony at Omaha Beach, Saint Laurent sur Mer, later that day alongside 25 heads of state and veterans from around the world.
The Princess of Wales is not expected to travel to France.
On June 5, Charles, Camilla and William will attend the UK’s national commemorative event in Portsmouth.
Other members of the royal family will also mark the anniversary of the D-Day landings over the two dates.
Lady Amelia Windsor ‘honoured’ as she debuts first ever Chelsea Flower Show garden plot
The 28-year-old granddaughter of the Duke of Kent and King Charles’s second cousin once removed, showed off her plot for the first time ahead of next week’s opening.
“So excited and honoured to be a very small part of the team for Kent Wildflower Seeds’s first garden at the Chelsea Flower Show,” she wrote on Instagram.
As revealed on Instagram, she is showcasing her gardening talents by creating a wildflower pot for the show which runs from the 21st to the 25th of May.
Amelia is not the only member of her family to have a passion for the natural world, so too does her cousin, King Charles, who has confirmed that he will be visiting the Chelsea Flower Show on on Monday alongside Queen Camilla.
Anne ‘asked pertinent questions’ about women in WW2 navy, says veteran
The Princess Royal “asked pertinent questions” at a Buckingham Palace garden party about the work of the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS), a Second World War veteran said.
The event on Friday was attended by 2,000 beneficiaries of The Not Forgotten Association which provides entertainment, leisure and recreation for ex-servicemen and women and serving personnel with disabilities, illness or injuries.
Anne has been the patron of the charity, which supported more than 12,000 individuals last year, since 2000. Accompanied by her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, the royal couple stood on the steps of the garden to observe the national anthem, before greeting representatives and beneficiaries of the organisation.
Anne, wearing a beige dress and jacket with cream gloves and a pearl necklace, smiled and laughed as she shook hands and spoke with attendees including veterans from all services.
Marie Scott, 97, who lives near Kingston-upon-Thames in Surrey, worked as a radio operator on D-Day at 17 years old to relay messages to the frontline on the beaches in France. She spoke with the princess about her time in the WRNS.
Ms Scott said: “She asked me about my service. I told her where I was but she’d clearly heard of Fort Southwick because she asked pertinent questions so it was very interesting.”
More pictures from the Ceremony of Keys
Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh take part in Ceremony of the Keys
The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh took part in a special Church of Scotland service during a visit to Edinburgh.
The Ceremony of the Keys was held at the Palace of Holyroodhouse on Friday, to mark the start of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
The guard of honour, Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland marched during the ceremony.
Chief Constable of Police Scotland, Jo Farrell also attended, and journalist, TV correspondent and British Army reservist Major-General Alastair Bruce.
During the Ceremony of the Keys the Lord High Commissioner, in this case the Duke of Edinburgh, as the King’s representative, receives the keys from the Lord Provost.
He was previously Lord High Commissioner in 2014, as Earl of Wessex, and represented his mother, the late Queen.
King Charles says he’s ‘not too bad’ amid cancer battle
The Monarch, 75, only just returned to work last month, and despite reports that he would be undertaking a reduced summer schedule, he attended five events in just 48 hours – culminating in this surprise appearance at the opera.
Performers learned that the King would be watching 20 minutes before the show began and he later joined them on stage for a standing ovation.
Meghan Markle reveals hopes for Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet’s futures
Recalling a visit to a school on the first day of her three-day tour with Prince Harry, she said: “I saw myself in them. I see the potential in all of these young girls – and, by the way, in these young boys as well.
“It’s what we see in our own children – to give them that promise and excitement for their futures,” she added to PEOPLE.
Prince Harry praises the ‘transformative power’ of sport
The Duke of Sussex said this was brought home to him on a visit to a military hospital in Kaduna, where he witnessed “very low morale” among the injured.
“Out of those 50, there were two guys who were smiley and happy. And they were the two who were in Germany [at the Düsseldorf Invictus Games] last year,” he told PEOPLE.
“That experience of knowing what life post-injury is like gives people so much hope. And hope, hope, hope is a huge part of this.”
Harry founded the games in 2014 to give wounded, sick and injured service people a chance to showcase their sporting talents.
Prince Andrew loses role to Queen Camilla
She was recently given the role after Prince Andrew stepped down in 2019 when he stopped being a working royal.
Prince Andrew was stripped of his military titles and royal patronages following his association with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The racecourse said in a statement: “York Racecourse is both honoured and thrilled that Her Majesty The Queen has agreed to be the Royal Patron of York Racecourse.”
Lady Amelia Windsor ‘so excited’ to make Chelsea Flower Show debut
The model and freelance writer, 28, is showing off her horticultural skills by making a pot of wildflowers for the event.
“So excited and honoured to be a very small part of the team for Kent Wildflower Seeds’s first garden at the Chelsea Flower Show,” she wrote.
Amelia, known as “Mel”, is 43rd in line to the British throne.
She is the granddaughter of the Duke of Kent and King Charles’s second cousin once removed.
Source: independent.co.uk
