DETERMINED King Charles led D-Day celebrations despite being in hospital for cancer treatment less than 24 hours earlier, The Sun can reveal.
The 75-year-old monarch was in a London hospital on Tuesday but remained eager to join veterans next day and “lead from the front”.
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He traveled to Portsmouth on Wednesday morning and gave an eight-minute speech that left tears in Queen Camilla’s eyes.
Under medical advice, its appearance was reduced by 45 minutes.
But he still found time to mingle with some of the 21 D-Day heroes invited to the televised event.
The “carefully calibrated” arrangements meant that Charles could travel 200 kilometers to Normandy for the 80th birthday ceremonies.
There – aided again by Camilla – he gave an impassioned speech at the British Normandy Memorial, where the names of 22,442 fallen heroes are engraved.
He saluted the generation that “did not waver” when the time came to act. And he urged the world to learn from the past, calling on free nations to “unite to oppose tyranny.”
He then met more veterans and told them he was “doing well.”
Doctors are understood to have ordered “appointments” – what they saw Prince William takes over from his father and joins more than 25 world leaders at the international ceremony on Omaha Beach just hours later.
This allowed Charles to return after three tiring days.
The celebrations at Omaha Beach were supposed to take place from 3:30pm to 5:30pm, but delays meant many world leaders didn’t leave until 7pm. And the King’s health The team was aware that a similar ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day exceeded two hours in 2019.
Royal sources said: “All events have been reviewed in consultation with doctors. They were extremely long days and some compromises had to be made.”
Meanwhile, William’s appearances at a series of D-Day events and billionaire friend Hugh Grosvenor’s social wedding marked his busiest period of engagements since News of wife Kate’s health problems emerged in January.
A source close to William said: “As Prince of Waleshe has a strong feeling of wanting to support his father, both at home and abroad.”
Charles will attend the King’s Foundation Awards at St James’s Palace in London next Tuesday.
He and Camilla are also expected to take part in a number of other events and engagements in the coming weeks, including a garden party at the Palace of Holyroodhouse during the so-called Scotland week.
This year falls in General elections week, so the king is expected to return on Friday, July 5, to officially ask whoever wins to form a new government.
Charles spent three nights in hospital in January with an enlarged prostate and tests later revealed he had cancer.
The Sun revealed in April how doctors were so impressed with the progress of his recovery that he was cleared to return to carefully prepared frontline duties.
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