King Charles III was briefly hospitalized on Thursday after suffering side effects of his treatment for cancer, said Buckingham Palace in a note. The Palace said that Charles, 76 years old, had since returned to his London residence, Clarence House, and that his public program for Friday would have been canceled as a precaution.
The king announced in February last year that he had been diagnosed with a form of unmealing cancer, and has since been subjected to treatments. The building did not specify the nature of the side effects, in addition to saying that they were temporary and “required a short period of observation in the hospital”.
Charles has returned to an active program in recent months, hosting foreign leaders including the president Volodymyr Zelensky from Ukraine and visiting a aircraft carrier, the HMS Prince of Wales.
But the palace did not offer updates on its prognosis or the nature of its treatment. His cancer was discovered during surgery for an extended prostate last February; The building said he does not have prostate cancer but has not offered any more details on his illness.
This is in contrast to her daughter -in -law, Catherine, Princess of Wales, to which cancer was also diagnosed last year, but announced in January that after several months of chemotherapy, she was now free from cancer.
The building tried to reproduce concerns about the king’s conditions, stating that his recovery continued on a positive track and that the side effects were not unusual for patients who received drugs. Palace officials said they did not expect Charles to make important changes to its program, which included foreign and regular home trips.
The king, for example, plans to go on with a state visit to Italy next month. The palace announced at the beginning of this week that he and his wife, Queen Camilla, would not have visited Pope Francis in the Vatican because Francis is still recovering from pneumonia and a serious respiratory disease, who has kept him in the hospital for more than a month.
“His Majesty should have received credentials from the ambassadors of three different nations this afternoon,” said the palace in a note. “Tomorrow, he was supposed to undertake four public commitments in Birmingham and is very disappointed to have lost herself on this occasion.”
“He hopes a lot that they can be reprogrammed in debt time and offer his deepest excuses to all those who had worked so hard to make the planned visit possible,” says the note.
The worries of the King’s health have faded in recent months, since he has maintained a vigorous program, including a nine -day challenging tour in Australia and Samoa last year. But the lack of information on his treatment or prognosis has made it difficult to evaluate whether he is recovering quickly or simply by pushing himself.
The building did not exclude further small adjustments to its program, which according to this would have been carried out in consultation with its doctors. The officials stressed that the king appreciated his public duties and that they contributed to his well -being.
Charles found himself at the center of a diplomatic whirlwind in recent weeks. Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivered a formal invitation from the king for President Trump to make a state visit to Great Britain during his meeting with Mr. Trump in the oval office.
Several days later, after Trump was bitterly clashed with Mr. Zelensky, the king hosted the Ukrainian president in his national residence, Sandingham. Zelensky had traveled in Great Britain after the United States to participate in a meeting of European leaders and others to discuss the war in Ukraine.
Charles also met two subsequent first ministers of Canada, Justin Trudeau and Mark Carryy, while they were fighting with the rates imposed by Mr. Trump and rejected his request to become the 51st American state.
These meetings are on the agenda, given that Charles is also the king of Canada. But they have taken on further meaning in the light of the in -depth tensions between Canada and the United States.
Even the king’s visit to a aircraft carrier, during which he spoke with the crew and looked at the fighting jets taking and land on the bridge, was full of symbolism. Great Britain, together with France, has taken on a leading role in an attempt to assemble a multinational force to help guarantee a peace agreement in Ukraine.