In 1984, Prince Charles was the star guest at the opening ceremony of the first official Paralympic Games to be held in Britain, next to Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
The King has long been trying to get his brother – who has no apparent source of income – to leave the Windsor mansion amid rumours the Prince of Wales is keen to take up the residence.
The 75-year-old monarch will bestow the prestigious position of Colonel-in-Chief of The Army Air Corps to his heir at the Army Aviation Centre in Middle Wallop, Hampshire.
The Palace has announced King Charles will meet with one of his sons – William – on Monday to hand over the role of Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps to the Prince of Wales.
The Monarch will return to royal duties on Tuesday with the blessing of his doctors by visiting a cancer treatment centre with his wife Queen Camilla.
The Prince of Wales had pulled out of doing a reading at a memorial service for his father’s second cousin King Constantine of Greece ‘for personal reasons’.
Despite cancelling all public engagements, insiders joke that he will work through his ‘red boxes’ of paperwork ‘before he’s had his boiled egg in the morning’.
Stephen Fry has said it would be ‘really sad’ if his close friend King Charles was ‘seriously ill’ after waiting so long to be crowned because the monarch has ‘so much he wants to do.’
Follow MailOnline’s live coverage today as King Charles III recuperates at Sandringham following his cancer treatment, after Prince William spoke about his father’s diagnosis for the first time.
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