King Charles will hail the work of the Commonwealth as it celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, although the British monarch will be absent from annual celebrations for the organisation he leads as he recuperates from cancer treatment.
His wife Queen Camilla will instead lead senior royals when they gather for a service at London’s Westminster Abbey followed by a reception at Commonwealth’s international headquarters. “As I have said before, the Commonwealth is like the wiring of a house, and its people, our energy and our ideas are the current that runs through those wires,” he says in his message., will not attend as she continues her recovery from abdominal surgery.For most of its existence, the Commonwealth, one of the world’s biggest international organisations covering 2.