King Charles III Returns to Public Duties After Cancer Diagnosis

King Charles III has returned to the public eye today, for his first official external engagement since his cancer diagnosis was revealed to the United Kingdom in February and the results were described as 'encouraging' by his doctors from an initial phase of ongoing treatments. The 75-year-old monarch was seen smiling with Queen Camilla, visiting as planned a hospital and an oncology center in London. Buckingham Palace had announced on Friday a partial resumption of official duties after in recent months Charles had limited himself to participating in indoor appointments with individual guests or family events such as Easter mass. Harry in London for the Invictus Games, but will not meet Kate and William. Experts: 'Unlikely he will visit.' 'I feel much better,' said King Charles, responding to Sky News who asked him about his health condition. The chosen destination for this return to the scene represents a gesture of solidarity towards other patients and support for campaigns for prevention or early treatment of cancer. The royal couple was expected outside the facility by subjects and curious onlookers. 'You are not alone,' was the message from one of those present to the monarch. The program plans for Charles and Camilla to stop and talk with patients, doctors, and nurses. The court, on the other hand, has made it known that no further statements or communications on the king's health condition are to be expected, dealing with a cancer diagnosed after a previous surgical intervention related to a situation of enlarged prostate, but whose exact nature has never been revealed. The partial resumption of the sovereign's official activities is commented on with relief in the British political world and with reactions of cautious confidence by various commentators (after some alarming gossip recently fueled by the US tabloid press). Even though in the background remain the elements of caution suggested at the moment by the same palace statements. While it is still unclear whether among the upcoming commitments of His Majesty there is also a new meeting with the younger son, the rebel prince Harry, returning for a few days to the Kingdom in a week, from the American self-exile, to participate in the events of the tenth anniversary of the Invictus Games: games reserved for mutilated soldiers of which the Duke of Sussex has been a patron since its foundation. A trip in which Harry, as confirmed in the past hours by a spokeswoman of his, will not be accompanied by his spouse Meghan, nor by the little children Archie and Lilibet. Meanwhile, any date on a potential public return of the 42-year-old Princess of Wales, Catherine, wife of the heir to the throne William, herself struck by a cancer of unspecified nature made known in a touching video to the nation last month after a previous, delicate operation on the abdomen. Just yesterday William and Kate celebrated, privately and with their three children (George, Charlotte, and Louis), their most difficult wedding anniversary, the 13th: then limiting themselves to releasing today as an official portrait of the occasion a smiling archival photo taken years ago and hitherto unpublished.