King Charles III seeks to recover from cancer with yoga, meditation and vegetarian food in India

King Charles III considered his trip to Australia and Samoa a success and a challenge to his health. To recover from your 11 days of tour Royalhe and Queen Camilla decided to make “a stop” in one of the places they visit most privately: Soukya, Bangalore, India. A health center specialized in alternative medicine and organic foods, which the sovereign defend passionately against traditional medicine, to the concern of the government regarding his cancer and his state of health. The chief physician of the royal household He is a homeopath.

The King and Queen enjoyed this little getaway to their favorite wellness center in India. Only upon his return will the king return to his chemotherapy sessions for an unidentified cancer.

Yoga, meditation and vegetarian food are the options for Charles and Camilla during their break in Bengaluru “for a private health break”, after the King’s first big overseas trip since his cancer diagnosis.

The couple stayed at the Soukya International Holistic Health Centera wellness center that offers homeopathy, ayurveda and naturopathywhich they both know well. The Bengaluru health centre, which has 25 guest rooms, was reserved exclusively for the royal couple, who participated in meditation sessions.

Charles, 75, who has long advocated alternative medicines and therapies, He has visited India many times and the Soukya center. It is headed by Issac Mathai, who has been Charles’ consulting physician for many years. The two men share interests in organic farming and alternative systems of medicine, such as naturopathy.

The center is also one of 77-year-old Camilla’s favorites. It is believed to be his ninth or tenth visit to the exclusive retreat. Before visiting Samoa, he stayed in Soukya for a week with a group of friends, before returning with the King on Sunday.

Soukya grows his own foodwhich is part of the treatment offered.

“All food and herbs are grown on-site. Meals are prepared one hour before serving. Nothing is stored in the refrigerator. Everything is organic and fresh. It is purely vegetarian and very simple, based on dishes that my wife, a nutritionist, has devised over the last 30 years,” Mathai told The Times.

Mathai has been a friend and advisor to the king for many years, and was invited to Queen Elizabeth’s funeral and Charles’ coronation.

The King and Queen took long walks around the 13-hectare property, where they also participated in meditation sessions.

Those close to the King, who was accompanied by two doctors throughout the trip, say that he has adopted a “mind, body and soul” approach for the disease. “He really loved” the first trip abroad since his diagnosis.

A senior Palace official said of the tour, which involved up to eight engagements a day: “It is a measure of the way the King is coping with the diagnosis. “He is a great believer in mind, body and soul.”

“The doctor is here to make sure your body is well taken care of. The trip has lifted your mood and your recovery. In that sense, the tour, despite its demands, has been the perfect tonic,” he said, after his trip to Australia and Samoa.

Charles III He is the head of the Anglican church after the death of his mother, Elizabeth II. But a letter that is auctioned in Great Britain shows that, in his privacy, he is closer to Prince Philip’s original religious ideas, his Greek father, of the Orthodox religion, and his grandmother, Alice de Battenberg, who became an Orthodox nun.

The king believed that the Orthodox Church was the only Christian denomination that “had not been corrupted.” for the disgusting political correctness“, as revealed by a private letter

As sovereign, Charles is the supreme governor of the Church of England, which is the denomination in which he was baptized and confirmed. Therefore, his comments, made in 1998 while he was Prince of Wales, are likely to be considered a veiled criticism of the church, which he was destined to lead upon ascending the throne.

The letter, marked “private and confidential,” was sent in 1998 from Balmoral Castle to Dudley Popak, an interior designer who had worked with the royal family.

Popak died in 2005. The letter was among a collection of royal correspondence sold at auction by Lay’s Auctioneers of Penzance, Cornwall, for more than £1,700.

The king has often expressed his fascination and affinity for the Greek Orthodox Church in which his father, Prince Philip, was baptized.

In his letter to Popak, Prince Charles, then 49, wrote: “Personally, the older I get, the more I am drawn to the great timeless traditions of the Orthodox Church. They are the only ones that have not been corrupted by disgusting political correctness.”

It is not clear what particular policies of the Church of England or other Christian churches had caused his irritation in 1998. The Church of England had recently changed its laws to allow women to become priests, ordaining the first women in 1994, but there was no sign of real opposition to the move.

In 1998 there were still four years before the church abandon its opposition to the remarriage of divorcees with living ex-spouses. Furthermore, this was a measure that ultimately benefited Charles, as it allowed the then Archbishop of Canterbury to give his blessing on Carlos’s marriage to Camillawhose ex-husband was still alive.

A choir performed Psalm 71 in Greek at the King’s coronation last year. He turned to a Greek Orthodox priest, Archimandrite Ephraim, for guidance after his cancer diagnosis.

In the same letter, Carlos said he had fears about genetically modified crops, noting: “The whole prospect of a future ‘Frankenstein’ (sic) fills me with indescribable sadness and despair. It is money that drives everything and the wisdom has been banished in the face of seemingly unstoppable marketing.”

Buckingham Palace does not comment on private royal correspondence.