just to let you know where we are, this is a university college hospital, the macmillan cancer centrehave chosen this to be the first engagement back. hugely symbolic, bearing in mind the xp as he has gone through over the past couple of months. just to give you a little bit of what he is going to do. he will go inside, meet clinicians, speak to staff, speak to patients. he will go on a chemotherapy water, talk to people lined up waiting to have their chemotherapy. he is also going to have a look at some of the amazing technologies that are going on inside the cancer centre. new technologies, which are using blood cells to try to detect early cancer diagnosis. there are other things, looking at lung cancer research. he will be meeting patients and people who have been treated for these cancer diagnoses. so it is a really big moment. we expect him to be inside for about an hour. obviously, you saw there that it was also the queen, so again a nice moment for her. she has had to do a lot of these engagements over the last few months on her own, so nice to have the king back by her side.

he has been inside the macmillan cancer centre. this is a major cancer specialist centre.to patients. he has been talking to patients. he has been talking to patients. he has been talking to clinicians. there is a lot of very high—tech cancer research work going on inside this building. he has been looking at something called tracer x. this is a large uk wide programme looking at lung cancer research, promoted by cancer research uk, looking at how treatment evolves over time and why it sometimes stops working. he has also been looking at some cell therapy, using white blood cells to attack cancer cells. my colleagues inside say that he has been talking about early diagnosis, the importance of early diagnosis and the importance of getting people tested early. let's have a look. can we just ask so we can just see behind, to keep an eye on the door, so when it opens, that is when king charles and queen camilla will leave the cancer treatment centre. you can see the staff getting ready. i'm just going to move out of the way so that you can get a nice, clear shot of whenever th

just a couple of hours before his majesty the king and queen camilla arrived here at the macmillan cancer centrehospital in central london. it was a very symbolic visit. the first public engagement here is carried out since his cancer diagnosis. he is still undergoing cancer treatments, but the king was keen to highlight the benefits of an early diagnosis when it comes to cancer, and he was keen to talk about and highlight his own experience with cancer. he even told one patient in the chemotherapy ward that he is receiving more treatment for himself this afternoon. so it was that level of intimate detail. the king was keen to share, and he wanted to encourage others to talk about their own diagnosis as well, and also show that although he still is receiving treatment, he to work and was encouraging others to. although they perhaps are still do have cancer, they very much can have as normal a life as they want to live. subject of course, to doctors advice. and that was the key message , i that was the key message, i think, here for his majesty the king. it's baby steps back into pubuc king. it's

i was outside the macmillan cancer centre at ucl university college london hospital today and he he lookedd i think he looked even he looked utterly happy and content as he came out because i think he feels no one's pretending that, you know, he's out of the woods. i mean, it's absolutely clear he's still undergoing treatment. but i mean, the point he wanted to make today was that, you know, you're not alone when you have one of these diagnoses and also that actually going back to work can be a very great therapy for many people. so he and the direction of travel is such that, i mean, here he was, this is the first time he's in enclosed space. he's in indoors environment. it's crowded. he's shaking hands. he's shaking a lot of hands. all this is being cleared by his doctors. so i think that it's looking it's looking in the right direction . looking in the right direction. >> but it's one of the things about a monarchy, isn't it, that having your sovereign who is ill, showing that you can be treated for it and that you can carry on working, is going to be inspirational to millions of his su

that's happening because, let's see, this is them having their little walkabouts a day at the macmillan cancer centrewas there to visit that hospital , to raise that hospital, to raise awareness all about the importance of the early diagnosis and the technology developments, etc. when it comes to fighting cancer , they go, to fighting cancer, they go, shake of the hand there with a patient at that centre. >> quentin, i feel i should be standing up to discuss this bit. >> you can stand up if you want. >> you can stand up if you want. >> i think it's wonderful to see him back. i love the king. and, i think camilla is pretty too. good, and i like the way they always wave. they always look up. up to waves that are waving at the, the russian drone up there , giving them a wave. but there, giving them a wave. but no, i mean, three cheers for the king. >> three cheers for the king. ella, i think anything that draws attention to the work that's done at the macmillan centre and its research is a is a good thing, particularly if celebrities turn up and the royals are most of the time acting as celebrities thes

macmillan cancer centre in london. >> there he is getting out of the car. lieutenant, who is a ceremonial figure always dressed in military outfit there, sometimes female , of course, sometimes female, of course, queen camilla looking behind him in some form of leopard print frock. >> it is from where we're sitting, but they both. >> they both look very happy. >> they both look very happy. >> a lovely day . >> a lovely day. >> a lovely day. >> yeah. they're relaxed. >> yeah. they're relaxed. >> yeah, he's. he's chatting to, waving at the crowds. there's quite a few people there , to quite a few people there, to welcome him and to wave him in. everybody looking very happy to see the king and the queen. >> lots of curtsying going on there. >> lovely. now, of course, we've we've got this, developing story this morning. we still don't know the condition of the five victims of this stabbing this morning in hainaut. we're going to talk now to will geddes again. we had to, we had to cut you off, will. but i'm sure you understand why we had to. you. i'm sure you do

cancer treatment centre. it's not one of the centres that treated his majesty, but he and the queen are going there as patrons of cancer research uk and macmillanarch uk and macmillan cancer support, as you said, also , we've had confirmation also, we've had confirmation that his majesty will be, presiding over the state visit of their imperial majesty the emperor and empress of japan. but beyond that, we don't really know what engagements will be undertaken over, over the summer. really. i mean, the major event is, of course, on june the 6th. we're marking the 80th anniversary of d—day, june 6th, 1944, when british, american and canadian forces landed on normandy, opening up the west front against the nazis . it may be the last time an event like this is held because of the age of the veterans. so the king will, of course, really want to be a participant in that. and then a week later or so you have on the 15th of june, of course, it's trooping the colour , the king's official colour, the king's official birthday. will his majesty be there ? that's another question there? that's another question we need to know about. and then on from the 18th