Rod Stewart jokes with King Charles III in June 2024. Kirsty Wigglesworth – WPA Pool/Getty Pictures
King Charles III and Rod Stewart shared a playful second involving a pair of pruning shears.
The king, 76, and the rocker, 80, appeared collectively at an occasion for the thirty fifth anniversary of Charles’ charity, The King’s Basis, in Scotland on Wednesday, January 15.
At Dumfries Home, the place the foundation is headquartered, Charles presided over a time capsule ceremony — inserting significant gadgets right into a wood field — as Stewart, and his spouse, Penny Lancaster, seemed on. When the king picked up a pair of shears, he jokingly pointed them in Stewart’s route because the “Maggie Could” singer pretended to flinch. Charles let loose a hearty chuckle whereas Stewart grinned.
The King’s Basis, which was launched in 1990, will mark its milestone anniversary all year long by accumulating gadgets for the capsule that “signify the achievements and legacy” of the inspiration, in keeping with a press launch printed on the royal family’s website.
Kirsty Wigglesworth – WPA Pool/Getty Pictures King Charles III not too long ago opened as much as Rod Stewart about present process most cancers remedy. Stewart, 79, met the royal, 75, on the inaugural awards for The King’s Basis on Tuesday, June 11. The “Crusing” singer, who serves as ambassador for the charity, stated Charles informed him he had remedy that […]
“The gadgets will focus significantly on what impressed folks to commit their time to defending the constructed and pure world,” the discharge acknowledged. “As soon as collated, the time capsule might be buried on the Dumfries Home property and opened 100 years from now.”
Charles, for his half, appeared in good spirits amid his well being struggles. The monarch introduced in February 2024 that he’d been recognized with an undisclosed type of most cancers following a process to right an enlarged prostate. Throughout his annual Christmas address final month, he referenced his analysis.
“I’m chatting with you right now from the Chapel of the previous Middlesex Hospital in London — now itself a vibrant group area — and pondering particularly of the various hundreds of execs and volunteers right here in the UK and throughout the Commonwealth who, with their abilities and out of the goodness of their coronary heart, take care of others, usually at some value to themselves,” he stated.
“From a private perspective, I supply particular, heartfelt because of the selfless docs and nurses who, this 12 months, have supported me and different members of my household by way of the uncertainties and anxieties of sickness, and have helped present the power, care and luxury we now have wanted,” he continued. “I’m deeply grateful, too, to all those that have supplied us their very own form phrases of sympathy and encouragement.”
Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Pictures UPDATE: 12/20/24, 1:03 p.m. ET — Throughout a Friday, December 20, public look at a reception on the Waltham Forest City Corridor, King Charles III was requested about his wellbeing. “I’m nonetheless alive,” he joked, per on-line footage. Unique story continues under: King Charles III is reportedly anticipated to proceed his most cancers […]
Charles’ daughter-in-law Kate Middleton revealed her personal most cancers analysis in March 2024 and stated that she was present process chemotherapy. Each continued their therapies as they resumed their royal duties; Kate completed her remedy in September and introduced on Tuesday, January 14, that she is in remission.
In an Instagram post shared on the time, Middleton, 43, thanked The Royal Marsden, a London hospital specializing in most cancers remedy.
“My heartfelt thanks goes to all those that have quietly walked alongside [Prince] William and me as we now have navigated every little thing,” the princess stated. “We couldn’t have requested for extra. The care and recommendation we now have obtained all through my time as a affected person has been distinctive.”
“In my new position as Joint Patron of The Royal Marsden, my hope is, that by supporting groundbreaking analysis and scientific excellence, in addition to selling affected person and household wellbeing, we’d save many extra lives, and rework the expertise of all these impacted by most cancers.”
