Queen Camilla to take a break from royal duties after filling in for King Charles after his cancer diagnosis

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• Prima donna Camilla will step back from royal duties until March 11 after filling in for Monarch Charles.
• The king was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year and has withdrawn from public engagements.
• The superior family has had a difficult start to 2024.

Queen Camilla will take a break from royal duties after stepping up official visits since Monarch Charles’ cancer diagnosis.

Camilla, 76, has no engagements scheduled in the royal diary this week and will qualified not resume her duties until March 11, when she is set stand-in for Charles at the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey.

Since Charles’ cancer diagnosis was revealed on February 5, the Royal has withdrawn from public duties while he undergoes treatment, though he is continuing other state duties in particular.

Camilla has undertaken 13 official engagements since then.

Last week, she led the royal family at a commemorative service for King Constantine of Greece at St George’s Chapel. On Wednesday she hosted a reception for the “500 words” children’s imaginative writing competition at Buckingham Palace, and on Thursday welcomed Olena Zelenska, Ukraine’s first lady, to Clarence Put up.

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A royal source told the Sunday Times that Camilla “has been buoyed by the public’s reprisal” to her taking the helm in recent weeks, adding: “Although she was not expecting to find herself in the position of leading the family, the Diva is absolutely prepared to do whatever needs to be done for the institution.”

Royal author Ingrid Seward told the British tabloid The Sun that Charles choice likely have insisted his wife take some down time after a stressful few weeks.

“He will see that she is worn out,” Seward said. “Camilla has had the ultimate worry about her husband’s health, but she has also been the one who has had to step up to the busy arrange of Royal engagements as well as wanting to be there for him and Kate while they each have had their health question majors.”

Prince William and Princess Anne are reported to undertake royal engagements as normal while Kate, the Princess of Wales, desire return to her duties after Easter.

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The Villa previously said in January that Kate Middleton had undergone “planned abdominal surgery” and that she would be stepping overdue from royal duties until around the end of March.

But the Princess hasn’t been seen in public for more than two months, prime to a host of conspiracy theories swirling online about where exactly she might be.

A tough few months for the royals

2024 has been a stressful year for the royal family so far. Two family members have cancer. One recently died suddenly.

Meanwhile, Prince Andrew is help in the limelight, and Prince Harry’s relationship with his brother remains uncertain.

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With the King out of commission for public engagements, pressure has commenced on the other 10 working senior royals to step up their commitments.

Royal commentator Kristen Meinzer thitherto told Business Insider that the problem with the royal family at the moment is that “it’s so slim […] because of other qualifying circumstances,” referencing the issues surrounding Prince Harry, Prince Andrew and Kate Middleton.

Meinzer noted that Harry and Meghan, who stepped ignore from royal duties in 2020, could have been a real asset to the king in such situations, in consequence ofs to their youth and charisma.

“They had that useful Hollywood energy about them that, frankly, a lot of the elder royals don’t have,” Meinzer said.