LONDON — King Charles III delivered an Easter message on Thursday stressing the significance of friendship, “particularly in a time of want” — his first public remarks since Kate, the Princess of Wales, revealed she had change into the second senior royal to be recognized with most cancers. The pre-recorded audio message comes forward of the king attending a service on Easter Sunday, in what might be his most important public look since his personal most cancers prognosis in February.Charles, 75, was heard at a standard Maundy Thursday service at Worcester Cathedral, close to Birmingham within the West Midlands, some 130 miles northwest of London.He spoke of how Jesus set an “instance of how we should always serve and take care of one another,” and the way “we want and profit vastly from those that prolong the hand of friendship to us, particularly in a time of want,” in response to the Press Affiliation, a British information company that sometimes stories royal bulletins.Buckingham Palace confirmed Wednesday that the king will attend the Easter Mattins Service at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Fortress — some of the vital non secular occasions within the royal calendar. The king didn’t tackle his daughter-in-law’s well being immediately nor title her in his temporary private message on Thursday. However royal watchers could interpret his phrases within the context of the continuing household well being disaster. He additionally delivered a Bible studying. The king didn’t seem in particular person at Thursday’s occasion — as a substitute Queen Camilla deputized for him. Charles has stepped again from public engagements on medical recommendation. The king’s public relations group additionally launched a brand new image of the monarch sat at a desk in Buckingham Palace’s 18th Century Room, apparently recording his tackle right into a microphone. Charles has spoken of how touched he’s by the outpouring of messages and playing cards from well-wishers from throughout the UK and past as he undergoes remedy for the most cancers, the precise kind and stage of which the palace has not disclosed.The king launched an announcement after Kate revealed her prognosis final Friday, saying that he had change into nearer to his daughter-in-law via their shared hospital stays.The king was “so happy with Catherine for her braveness in talking as she did,” the assertion mentioned.The Royal Maundy service is a part of the king’s function as the top of the Anglican Church. The monarch palms out specially-made cash in white and crimson purses to 75 males and 75 ladies to reward them for good deeds akin to charity work, a reference to the king’s age. Camilla carried out that function on Thursday.The occasion symbolizes the Final Supper, when Jesus washed the toes of disciples the day earlier than Good Friday. The customized dates again to 600AD and the cash have been in use since 1662, when Charles II distributed Maundy cash.Charles attended final 12 months’s service at York Minster, following a convention set by Queen Elizabeth II to carry it elsewhere throughout the U.Ok., not simply in London.The king continues to work behind the scenes whereas receiving remedy for most cancers. On Tuesday he met group and religion leaders from the Windsor Management charity at Buckingham Palace, and he continues to carry a weekly viewers with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, albeit on at the very least one event by cellphone.