Queen Camilla, the wife of Charles III, suffers from a lung infection and had to give up her engagements this week, Buckingham Palace announced on Tuesday.
Camilla, aged 77 and crowned in May 2023, “is currently suffering from a lung infection, for which her doctors have advised her to take a short period of rest,” said a palace spokesperson.
The Queen “has therefore had to abandon her commitments this week, but she very much hopes to be recovered in time to attend” the ceremonies this weekend commemorating the First World War and paying tribute to British soldiers killed in conflicts. She will be absent from a ceremony which was planned for Thursday at Westminster Abbey. She also canceled a reception for British Olympic and Paralympic athletes due to take place in Buckingham on Thursday evening.
The palace did not provide additional information on the severity of his illness. According to British media, the queen is under the supervision of doctors.
Charles III and Camilla, who married in 2005, returned at the end of October from a tour of the Pacific which took them to Australia and Samoa. They stopped in India for a private tour on the way home. The king, aged 75, announced at the start of the year that he was suffering from cancer, the nature of which has not been revealed. Princess Kate, the wife of Crown Prince William, for her part revealed, on September 9, that she had completed her chemotherapy.
