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Britain’s head of state King Charles III has been billed to attend Easter Sunday church service, Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday, in his most high-profile engagement few weeks after revealing a cancer diagnosis.
King Charles and wife, Queen Camilla, will attend the Easter Mattins Service at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle — a long-standing annual tradition of Britain’s royal family.
The announcement comes after the 75-year-old king’s daughter-in-law Catherine, Princess of Wales last week said that she was also receiving treatment for cancer.
That leaves the monarchy in an unprecedented crisis in modern times with two of its most senior members simultaneously fighting serious illness.
Catherine, 42, is married to Charles’s eldest son and heir, Prince William, making her a future queen.
Charles was just 17 months into his reign when the palace announced in early February that he had cancer and would be pausing all public-facing engagements as he commenced treatment.
He had been admitted for surgery for a benign prostate condition in January but was subsequently diagnosed with an unrelated cancer.
The type of cancer has not been disclosed.
He has been continuing with behind-the-scenes work and holding some in-person meetings and increasingly attending official events.