The King has returned to his royal duties for the first time since his cancer diagnosis today as he carried out diplomatic audiences behind palace walls.

Charles, who is undergoing treatment for an unknown form of cancer, met with Algerian ambassador Nourredine Yazid and the ambassador for Mauritania, Samba Mamadou Ba at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday.

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The King has returned to his royal duties for the first time since his cancer diagnosis today as he carried out diplomatic audiences behind palace walls.

Charles, who is undergoing treatment for an unknown form of cancer, met with Algerian ambassador Nourredine Yazid and the ambassador for Mauritania, Samba Mamadou Ba at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday.

The diplomatic audiences were the King’s first this year, and the first since his diagnosis.

It comes as Kate Middleton’s uncle Gary Goldsmith delivered a cutting assessment on the Duchess of Sussex as he spoke extensively about the royal family for the first time in the Celebrity Big Brother house.

The 53-year-old businessman raised eyebrows when he was entered into the reality show which is broadcast on ITV1.

On Tuesday night, Mr Goldsmith came out with his first criticism of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. He first said Harry couldn’t “throw your family under the bus” referring to his memoir Spare and “expect to be invited round for Christmas.

Then he said Meghan’s entrance into the family had brought an extra dynamic that “puts a stick in the spokes and creates so much drama”.