REFUSING TO SLOW DOWN

His old friend was relieved.

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WORRIED WIFE

DESPITE NEW HEALTH SETBACKS AND CALLS FOR HIM TO STEP DOWN, KING CHARLES KEEPS CALM AND CARRIES ON

“It was nice to see him ... He’s on form,” British gardener and TV personality Alan Titchmarsh told reporters of King Charles on April 1, after receiving a commendation at Windsor Castle. The ceremony took place just days after the king, who has been battling cancer for more than a year, was hospitalized on March 27 due to temporary side effects from treatment, which palace sources described to multiple outlets as a “minor bump in the road.” Alan added that he’s always been “in awe of his boundless energy. His resilience before he had the problem was remarkable, and his resilience now is astonishing.”

It’s in Charles’ DNA. “Like his late mother, who used to say, ‘If I stop, I drop,’ work keeps him going,” royal expert Ingrid Seward tells In Touch of the strong ethic he inherited from his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who famously appointed a new prime minister two days before her 2022 death. “Charles couldn’t function without it.” And despite his family’s growing fears for his health and constant outside pressure to dial back his schedule or even abdicate the throne, a palace insider adds, the 76-year-old monarch “is refusing to slow down.”

TIRELESS ATTITUDE

The king is famously known as a workaholic. “He has been like this for all his adult life,” Seward tells In Touch, adding that keeping busy “gives a complete structure to his day.” And night, most of the time. Sophie Winkleman, who is married to Charles’ second cousin Lord Frederick Windsor, told Tatler in 2023 that “he works all day long, has a quick supper and then disappears until about 4 a.m. to write letters.” Charles’ son Prince Harry confirmed that in his memoir,