King Charles receives warning ahead of Australia visit

King Charles' goddaughter has expressed her concerns about King Charles ahead of his trip to Australia and Samoa amid cancer treatment.

India Hicks, the granddaughter of the late Lord Louis Mountbatten, appeared on this week's episode of The Royal Record podcast, where she spoke about the King Charles.

She issued a warning to the 75-year-old monarch ahead of his trip, saying: "The only thing one can think of is how utterly exhausting those tours are. You are on show all the time. Your every move is judged and analysed. Your every smile, your every expression, the every word that comes out of your mouth."

She went on: "Everybody takes it and looks at it and manipulates it. Imagine how exhausting that must be. Particularly for a man who's working very hard. So it will be exhausting, but I think, probably very necessary."

Cameron Walker asked Hicks about her mother Lady Pamela Hicks' advice to the King as the monarch's going on his own Commonwealth tour in just a few weeks to Australia and Samoa.

Hicks responded: "I think our King is very versed in all of these things. He's waited a long time for this job and he's very practised at it.

"He had a lot of apprenticeship years. There's very little advice my mum could give him."

Lady Pamela, 95, a close confidante and lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth II, spent several months with the previous monarch on Commonwealth tours.

"Also, when the Queen undertook those two Commonwealth tours, she was incredibly young, she was something like 22 when they left. The King, of course, is of a different age."

King Charles and Queen Camilla are set to travel to Oceania in October for the first time since the Coronation.