Queen Camilla cancels engagements due to lung infection

The 77-year-old wife of the English King Charles III will observe “a short period of rest”, explained a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace.

Queen Camilla, wife of the English King Charles III, suffers from a lung infection and had to give up her engagements this week, Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday, November 5. “His doctors advised him to take a short period of rest.”explained a palace spokesperson about Camilla, aged 77 and crowned in May 2023.

The queen “really hope to be recovered in time to attend” at 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 scrapped a reception for Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes, which is 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. Camilla and Charles III, who was suffering from cancer, returned at the end of October from a tour in the Pacific which took them to Australia and Samoa.