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.
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