Queen Camilla appears to believe that sometimes laughter can be the best medicine.
At an event Saturday for the Queen’s Reading Room Festival at Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, Queen Camilla playfully commented to Jack Reacher author Lee Child that amid King Charles III‘s ongoing cancer treatment, Charles is “doing fine” but “won’t slow down and won’t do what he’s told,” Sky News reported.
“Sounds to me like a typical husband,” Child retorted.
Charles, who announced early this year that he had been diagnosed with cancer while undergoing treatment for an enlarged prostate, has recently returned to a lightened schedule of royal duties. Late last week, he delivered his first public speech at an engagement since sharing his diagnosis, honoring the “courage” and “resilience” of veterans at a memorial marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The address left a pink-clad Camilla visibly teary. Son (and next in line for the throne) Prince William stood in for him at other events over the weekend. It was also Charles’ first overseas travel since sharing his diagnosis.
The monarch plans to attend the Trooping the Colour festivities this weekend, a major event on the royal calendar, with a concession that he will arrive in a carriage rather than on horseback, as he did last year at his first Trooping the Colour as sovereign.
Of course, this weekend isn’t the first time Camilla has thrown a winking jab at her husband’s inability to sit still and rest. At a palace garden party in May, Camilla joked that Charles is “getting better…Well, he would be if he behaved himself.”
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