Queen Camilla gives health update on King Charles ahead of Trooping the Colour

King Charles is ‘doing fine’ but ‘won’t do as he’s told’, Queen Camilla revealed ahead of Trooping the Colour.

The queen spoke with thriller author Lee Child at the second annual Queen’s Reading Room Literary Festival at Hampton Court Palace, London, today.

Camilla told Child that the King is ‘doing fine except he won’t slow down and won’t do what he’s told’.

Child added that the monarch ‘sounds to me like a typical husband’.

Camilla also met the chairman of Historic Royal Palaces, Nicholas Coleridge; Vicky Perrin, chief executive of the Queen’s Reading Room, and authors including Harlan Coben.

Buckingham Palace revealed in February less than 18 months into his reign that Charles, 75, had been diagnosed with cancer.

Royal officials have never disclosed what form of cancer Charles has but said it was not prostate cancer. (Doctors detected the cancer during a procedure to treat an enlarged prostate.)

At the time, the palace said he was receiving outpatient treatment in London.

It comes ahead of Trooping the Colour, which marks the monarch’s official birthday on June 15, which Charles will attend as he returns back to his public duties.

Kate, who is also being treated for an undisclosed type of cancer, confirmed that she won’t be able to attend Colonel’s Review, the final rehearsal of Trooping the Colour.

The Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment said in a letter shared on X today: ‘Please pass my apologies to the whole Regiment, however, I do hope I can represent you all again soon.

‘Please send my very best wishes and good luck to all involved.’