Buckingham Palace have said The King will return to regular overseas trips next year as he adapts to living with cancer. Charles will fly abroad during the spring and autumn, the traditional periods for official foreign royal trips, provided doctors sanction the travel. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I'm absolutely delighted to hear that the King is likely to be able to come back to a full schedule
00:05of work. We mustn't forget that he is 75 years old and a full schedule of work, even for somebody
00:11who hasn't been diagnosed with cancer, is a lot to ask of somebody at that age. But with most cancers
00:18these days, treatments are getting very much better. We don't know what kind of cancer he's got
00:23but the treatments on the whole are better tolerated and this speaks well to how he's
00:28responded to treatment and how well he's coping with it. Frankly, I think any 75 year old undergoing
00:34the sort of foreign tour that the King has undergone should be building in time for rest.
00:40So with the added burden of having ongoing cancer treatment, I do think that he should be taking time
00:47to rest and taking advice from his doctors. However, he's clearly been revelling in it, he's
00:52clearly coped with what he's done and it may well be, we don't know, but it may well be that his
00:58treatment will be less intensive next year so he may need to have less in the way of rest.
01:03He is known for burning the candle at both ends, you know, he works well into the night
01:09and obviously this cancer diagnosis and the ongoing treatment has slowed him up, which is
01:16very frustrating, especially at the beginning of his reign. So he'll be absolutely waiting
01:21to start ploughing on again and being fully in control of his own programme.
01:26And it's this, it's tremendously arduous, you know, there's lots of background work beforehand,
01:32there's lots of briefing, he's meeting a lot of people, going to different events, time zones
01:37difference, long-haul flights, so that just to me is an indication that he's on the road to recovery.