On the heels of King Charlesroyal tour of Australia and Samoa with wife Queen Camillaa palace official said the public should expect more foreign visits from the couple.

The King, 75, and Queen, 77, left Samoa on Saturday, October 26, just over a week after landing in Australia on Friday, October 18. While Charles continues to receive treatment for cancer – which he expects to return. on his return to Britain after apparently stopping it for the tour — multiple outlets reported that he will resume regular foreign travel in 2025 after a hiatus to prioritize his health following his diagnosis earlier this year.

Royal visits will resume in the spring, accordingly The Guardianwith all travel subject to medical approval. The Post reported that the King will fly abroad in both the spring and autumn, the traditional times for official overseas royal visits.

“We are now working on a fairly normal-looking foreign tour schedule for next year,” said a senior palace official. “Which is a high for us to finish, to know that we can think in those terms, subject to doctors’ advice.”

The king began outpatient treatment for an undisclosed type and stage of cancer in early February. He initially ceased all public-facing duties – although he continued to work behind the scenes – and resumed front-facing royal work on 30 April. This recent tour of Australia and Samoa was his first long-distance visit since his diagnosis, which came following a routine procedure for a benign enlarged prostate. (The palace clarified that the King does not have prostate cancer.)

The King’s tour of Australia and Samoa originally included a third leg in New Zealand, but those plans were scrapped on the advice of his doctors. Although the couple’s schedule has been quite busy – sometimes including up to 10 engagements between them in a single day – a day of rest was factored in after the King and Queen’s long flight to Sydney on Saturday, October 19, and they took only attend the event in one evening.

“I think it’s a great testament to the king’s dedication to service and duty that he was prepared to come this far and was incredibly happy and very, very determined to do it,” the palace official continued, adding that Charles ” truly loved” on tour and “truly thrived” in the planned engagement schedule. The tour boosted his “morale, mood and recovery,” the official said.

“In that sense, the tour, despite its demands, was the perfect tonic,” the official added.

Charles would have two doctors traveling with him on the trip – including his personal doctor, telegraph reported — and his medical team made sure “his body is properly cared for,” a senior palace official said, according to the publication. It turned out to be “a very successful visit under the circumstances,” the official added.

The nine-day visit included some protests, notably in Australia, when Charles was heckled by Indigenous MP Lidia Thorpe at Parliament in Canberra on Monday, October 21.

“He was completely undisturbed,” according to a royal official, according to him BBC. “It’s been around for a long time. As always, (he) kept calm, carried on. He believes that free speech is the cornerstone of democracy and therefore everyone is entitled to their opinions.”

He also faced calls to addresses reparations for slavery and continues to face the lingering question of whether Australia will become a republicleaving him behind as head of state. (Australia is one of 14 countries in the world where Charles is a monarch; Barbados was the last country to become a republic, doing so three years ago in 2021.)

The Times quoted a source as saying the King won’t “run away” from tackling tough issues: “He’s always someone who wants to understand before he says anything,” the source said. “He is a listener more than a talker. It’s very easy to run away from some of these issues, but the King is not one to do that.”

A palace official added that Camilla is a source of encouragement to Charles, telling the BBC: “The King gets a lot of strength from the Queen being there, not least when she keeps it real.”

While it’s still unclear where the King (and presumably the Queen) is headed in 2025, during his final engagement in Samoa, Charles was unexpectedly handed a microphone during a ceremony in the village of Siumu. Conformable The Timesafter thanking Samoa for such a warm welcome, he said: “I shall always remain devoted to this part of the world, and hope to live long enough to return and see you.”

At the end of the tour, Charles and Camilla shared a message on social media marking the end of the historic tour. “As our visits to Australia and Samoa come to a close, my wife and I would like to thank both nations for their warmest welcome and for the countless fond memories we will carry in our hearts for many years to come,” he said. show in the message. .

“Even when we are far apart in distance, the many close ties that unite us across the globe and through our Commonwealth family have been renewed and will remain as deep as they are enduring,” the message continued.

The Times reported that Charles will take a short break before resuming a full schedule of engagements as the holidays approach – and then 2025 and the hopeful normalcy it will bring.

“The idea of ​​these tours is always to leave a mark,” said a palace adviser, Per The Times.

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daughter-in-law of the king Kate Middleton was also diagnosed with cancer earlier this year following a “planned abdominal surgery” in January. Her diagnosis was announced in March and she made two official public appearances over the summer – at Trooping the Color in June and Wimbledon in July – before announcing in a video message on September 9 that she had chemotherapy completed. She made an official royal engagement in Southport, England on October 10 alongside her husband Prince Williamand is making private appointments and being photographed at Windsor Castle as her gradual return to work continues. She is expected to attend the Remembrance Day events, which take place in less than two weeks on Sunday, November 10.