Queen Camilla was reportedly so decided to present up for a royal engagement Thursday that she didn’t let just a little factor like catastrophic climate cease her.

On Thursday night, Camilla made her first public look since the announcement that her husband, King Charles III, had been identified with most cancers. She attended a night live performance at Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury, England, and whereas she was smiling in footage of the solo engagement, issues weren’t fairly so clean behind the scenes.

Inclement climate reportedly grounded the helicopter Camilla was set to board at Sandringham, the place she had been spending time with Charles, to make the roughly 200-mile journey to Salisbury for the occasion. As a substitute of canceling, in accordance to The Telegraph, she determined to journey by automotive, a journey that took at the least six hours.

“The flight was canceled due to the climate so she elected to go by street, which is one hell of a journey—at the least six hours in these situations,” an unnamed supply instructed the newspaper. “She didn’t need to let down the king, having assured him that she would proceed together with her schedule of official engagements.”

At the occasion, when a fellow visitor requested after the king’s well being, Camilla responded, “He’s doing extraordinarily nicely underneath the circumstances. He’s very touched by all of the letters and messages the public have been sending from in every single place. That’s very cheering.”

With Charles off the schedule for the foreseeable future as he undergoes remedy for the unspecified most cancers, in addition to daughter-in-law Kate Middleton, whose restoration from stomach surgical procedure will maintain her away from royal duties till Easter, Camilla and different senior royals are carrying the household’s look schedule. Prince William returned to work this week with an look at an Air Ambulance gala Wednesday, and can preserve a reportedly scaled-back schedule after taking break day to be with spouse Middleton and their three kids. It’s Camilla, nevertheless, whom sources instructed Vainness Truthful is the “quiet energy behind the throne.”

Charles, sources inform VF, is “pissed off” that his outpatient most cancers therapies, which can happen in London with recoveries in between at Sandringham, are holding him away from his royal duties as king.