This is John Batchelor, colleague Gregory Copley.

The good news, the king has gone back to work within these hours, BBC reporting.

He was stepping aside from his duties as king to knit the country together, a reaction to his cancer treatment.

We can only guess how brave he is to go back to work right away.

The king is back and he's got work to do, very fast work. He's 77 years old. Good for him.

King and I are the same age and every day is perfect. Here's Gregory to describe King back at work and what he's going to do and where he's going.

More of this tonight.

He absolutely will.

And Queen Camillo is actually horrified by it because she 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.

The Pope himself is not well enough to meet.

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

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