I'm John Batson with my good friend Gregory Copley, defense in foreign affairs, the author of

Noble State, Considered Monarchy as a way of knitting together a nation. Everyone is very, very pleased

to see King Charles back at work. King Charles appeared in good spirits, writes the BBC,

as he attended his first public engagement

since side effects from his cancer treatment stopped him carrying out a visit last Friday.

The king hosted an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle.

This is very good news, Gregory. The king has been going hard, very hard, and I see that he doesn't

have a second gear. He'll keep

this up, won't he? He absolutely will. And Queen Camilla is actually horrified by it because

he tries to tame him down, but he sees the fact that he's got to make up for all of those years

when he was in training and wasn't able to do his destined job.

And he's also aware that his lifespan is finite, whether with the cancer or without.

And so he's definitely trying to pull the United Kingdom together,

pull the Commonwealth together, and to do his careful job of balancing the calm and balance of societies in the realms,

Canada, New Zealand, Australia, apart from the Commonwealth itself.

So he is not stopping for a moment.

They're coming up right in the coming weeks for the state visit to Italy,

where he will visit

a number of Italian towns.

He was to have met with the Pope.

With the Pope himself is not well enough to meet.

So the King will, however, give an address to the joint houses of Parliament in Italy.

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