King Charles “is a man in a hurry” to get back to full health as the monarch prepares to leave the UK, according to a royal commentator.
The King, 76, spoke to members of the public as he attended a Sunday church service today at St Mary the Virgin, alongside Reverend Canon Paul Williams in Norfolk.
He smiled and waved at onlookers while posing for photographs.
Queen Camilla was noticeably absent after joining her husband for the service at Crathie Kirk near Balmoral last weekend.
King Charles ‘is a man in a hurry’ to get back to full health as the monarch prepares to leave the UK, according to a royal commentator
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Charles wrapped up in a brown wool coat that the monarch wore over a smart light blue shirt and an Hermes cat and owl print tie, along with grey trousers and tan dress shoes.
The King’s outing comes just before he is set to travel to Poland for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp for a service held on Monday, January 27.
The monarch, who branded the upcoming international trip as “so important”, confirmed his visit during an engagement at Buckingham Palace earlier this month.
Former royal correspondent Jennie Bond suggested that the monarch is “absolutely determined” to recover to full health.
The King is set to travel to Poland for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp for a service held on Monday
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Bond said: “A full year of treatment must certainly have taken its toll, but he’s shown that he is absolutely determined to get back to working as normally as possible.
“Like Catherine, the King is undoubtedly having to get used to a new normal.
“His doctors will continue to keep an extremely close eye on him and will do their best to warn him if he is taking on too much.
“Understandably, though, Charles is a man in a hurry.”
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King Charles wore an Hermes cat and owl print tie as he attended church this morning
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She continued to tell the Mirror: “Cancer has changed the way he thought his reign would begin, and it will be hard to shake off the anxiety that living with cancer must bring.
“Since marrying Camilla I think Charles has had a new perspective on life: one in which the glass tends to be half full rather than half empty.
“And, cancer or not, I think that’s how he’ll approach the rest of his reign: full of optimism that he can achieve some of his goals and make a lasting impression in the role he waited so long to assume.”
Courtiers have said Charles’s treatment “continues to move in the right direction” but have highlighted that changes to his schedule could still change.