KING Charles is feeling “really well” and “would have been very pleased” to return to public events following his cancer diagnosis, Penny Mordaunt has said.
The Commons leader spoke about her meetings with him in his role as Lord President of the Privy Council to mark the first anniversary of the King and Queen’s coronation on Monday.
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She told GB News: “I don’t think people will be surprised to hear that he is completely charming and always calm.
“And he also has a great sense of humor. But he is always asking how things are going, especially issues we are dealing with in Parliament or about specific groups that he knows are going through difficult times.
“He’s always asking about these people, so he cares a lot and he’s a pleasure to work with.”
The Privy Council is a body of the monarch’s senior advisors.
Asked how Charles is doing, Mrs Mordaunt told the broadcaster: “He is doing very well. And I know he would have been very pleased to return to public office. He would have lost tremendously.
“I think everyone is really pleased to see him back and I know he wants to do more, so it was a good week.”
Mrs. Mordaunt was responsible for carrying the Sword of State and presenting the Jeweled Offering Sword to Charles at his coronation – the first time the duty had been performed by a woman.
The Conservative MP sparked interest on social media wearing a custom-made teal outfit with matching cape and headband with gold feather embroidery.
“I was determined and very excited, but also very nervous,” she said.
“The sword was very heavy.
“The question I always asked myself when I exercised with my reserve unit in the pouring rain every Tuesday night was: Why am I doing this now? I know why it was so I could wield that sword at the Coronation.
“In fact, the adrenaline of the day just carries you, carries you through it.”
Mordaunt has been tipped as a future Conservative leadership candidate.
But she denied it would be installed at Number 10 “like a new boiler room” amid questions about Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s political future in anticipation of a challenging local election for the Conservatives last week.
It comes after Charles marked his first birthday as king by sharing a montage of “unseen clips” to commemorate the historic day.
An intimate clip shows Charles looking out at the crowd of royal superfans.
The montage also includes a cockpit selfie video taken by a Red Arrows pilot during the RAF tour.
The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery fired a 41-gun salute in Green Park, near Buckingham Palace, at midday to mark the anniversary.
An hour later the Honorable Artillery Company fired 62 rounds from Tower Wharf, near Tower Bridge.
Last week, Charles returned to public duties for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer.
Her Majesty chose to make her public return by visiting a cancer hospital.
The monarch and Queen Camilla, 76, visited the Macmillan Cancer Center at University College Hospital in London.
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