King Charles thanks health workers in Christmas speech

King Charles thanked the health workers who supported him during his cancer treatment in his Christmas speech.

He offered his “heartfelt thanks” to all the doctors and nurses who helped him during the “uncertainties and anxieties of illness.”

The Christmas speech was recorded in the Fitzrovia Chapel in London, which was the first time in over ten years that the speech had been recorded outside of a royal residence.

The King said, “All of us go through some form of suffering at some stage in our life, be it mental or physical.” But the “measure of our civilisation” is how people are supported at such moments.

He acknowledged the Princess of Wales, who also received a cancer diagnosis this year and thanked the public for their kind messages after his own diagnosis was disclosed in February. King Charles’s treatment will continue in 2025.

He went on to praise those people who had attempted to build bridges after the summer riots. “I felt a deep sense of pride here in the United Kingdom when, in response to anger and lawlessness in several towns this summer, communities came together, not to repeat these behaviours, but to repair. To repair not just buildings, but relationships,” he said.