Charles III appears smiling the day after the announcement of his cancer. Charles III and Camilla first went to nearby Buckingham Palace, from where they were then due to travel by helicopter to the country residence of Sandringham.

The illness plunges the monarchy back into uncertainty a year and a half after the shock of the death of Elizabeth II at the age of 96 and more than 70 years of reign. Wishes for recovery poured in from around the world after the Announcement, which caused a shock in the United Kingdom.