When Buckingham Palace announced that the King had cancer on February 5, the statement was released with a previously unseen image of Charles from his state visit to France.
Standing alone in the doorway, the King looked towards the camera with an uncertain expression on his face and his hands clasped behind his back.
“People tell me that being diagnosed with a cancer is like suddenly finding yourself in an unknown land, with no map, no compass, no sign posts and no knowledge of the language,” he once said during a Macmillan Cancer Relief event in 1999.
Now, less than three months after his own diagnosis, the palace presents a radically different picture.
Announcing a return to public duties, the King is pictured arm-in-arm with
