The ROYAL INSIDER

CHARLES BACK WITH A BANG BUT MILES APART FROM HARRY

- Emily Andrews

The King was out and about on public engagements again recently, which was great to see.

King Charles gets a huge amount of job satisfaction from meeting people from all walks of life.

His doctors deemed him doing well enough in his cancer treatment for him to be ‘back’ and his first engagement, at London’s University College Hospital, saw him sitting down with fellow cancer patients to chat about their recovery.

As one observer there told me: ‘This was not King and subject; this was patient to patient. He wanted to know how people’s spirits were, where they were in their treatment and how they were coping.’

He even appeared to offer some tips – recommending the use of a cold cap (a hat worn during chemotherapy which cools the scalp and thus reduces the blood flow and drugs to this area) to prevent hair loss.

With cancer affecting one in two, all of us will either have experienced it ourselves or know of a loved one who has.

It gives the King, already an empathetic man, insight into many of his subjects’ lives.