Queen Camilla has said King Charles III is "doing very well" during her first royal visit since the couple's summer holiday.
Camilla visited the Royal United Hospital in Bath, England, to officially open their new Dyson Cancer Centre on Tuesday, where she was asked about her husband.
Suzy Moon, who works for cancer charity MacMillan, said: "Is he OK?" The queen, quoted by The Mirror, replied: "Yes, he is doing very well."
In February Buckingham Palace announced King Charles had begun treatment for a type of cancer that has not been disclosed.
It followed a procedure on an enlarged prostate in January, though the palace did clarify that it was not prostate cancer.
King Charles initially canceled public visits but maintained a scaled-down workload, continuing meetings with the prime Minister.
He was still undergoing treatment when he went back to work at the end of April before attending his birthday parade, Trooping the Colour, in June.
However, he was out of the limelight again in August when the royals took their summer holiday at Balmoral, the private estate in Scotland.
Camilla returned to work Tuesday, though the king has not yet completed his first royal engagement after the summer break.
The queen toured the hospital's new Dyson Cancer Centre which was built using £10 million ($30 million) of donations from around 11,000 people topped up with £40m in Government funding.
A Buckingham Palace press release says the center "brings together the majority of the Royal United Hospital's cancer services, including a research hub, chemotherapy and radiotherapy services, a 22-bed in-patient ward, a dedicated pharmacy and nuclear medicine and physics teams under one roof."
Charles is not the only royal who has taken time off work this year after Princess Kate also received treatment for cancer.
She has made a partial comeback, attending Trooping the Colour and the men's singles final of Wimbledon in June and July, respectively.
However, she is yet to take up a program of regular royal visits of the kind she did before her health crisis.
Kate underwent abdominal surgery in January after doctors had initially diagnosed a health issue they believed was not cancerous.
However, after the operation they discovered cancer had in fact been present and she began chemotherapy in late February.
Doctors hope the cancerous tissue was all removed during the original operation and the princess described her treatment as preventative in a March statement.
Jack Royston is Newsweek's chief royal correspondent based in London. You can find him on X, formerly Twitter, at @jack_royston and read his stories on Newsweek's The Royals Facebook page.
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