He took a break from his cancer treatments while he was in Australia and Samoa.
King Charles just wrapped up his tour of Australia and Samoa—and got very emotional as he made his final remarks—but as he returns to London, his medical team is concerned about his health after he skipped out on his ongoing cancer treatments while he was away. Before he and Queen Camilla started their royal tour, the palace had shared that Charles would be putting his treatment on hold and that he had the blessing of his medical team.
Even though Charles traveled with two doctors, a new report suggests that there are currently major concerns about his health, especially as nobody can be quite sure what missing out on his scheduled treatments has done to his body.
“[T]here’s concern among the king’s medical team after an anonymous palace briefing that he will be returning to a full program of overseas tours in 2025,” the Daily Mail shared. “Having skipped his cancer treatment regime to make the latest tour—and with no one certain how his body has coped—it was planned that he would take time off on his return, allowing him to recover and for doctors to carry out a full assessment of his well-being.”
Multiple outlets report that Charles will be taking a break now that he’s back home and that his medical team will assess everything before he resumes public-facing duties.
A senior official shared with the Express that Charles “genuinely loved” the tour and “thrived” during his packed schedule. They also said that the trip lifted “his spirits, his mood, and his recovery” and that “the tour—despite its demands—has been the perfect tonic.”
They also explained that Charles wants 2025 to be much more “normal” for the royals after a scary 2024.
“We’re now working on a pretty normal looking full overseas tour program for next year, which is a high for us to end on, to know that we can be thinking in those terms—subject to sign-off by doctors,” the source added. “It is hard to overstate the joy that he takes from duty and service and being in public and seeing those crowds engaging with communities across the spectrum. That really does lift the spirits. You can see that.”
