Queen Camilla indulged in a relaxing mini-break abroad ahead of her and King Charles’s tour in Australia and Samoa, reports have claimed.
The Queen spent a week at a famous Ayurvedic spa in India with close family and friends, according to the Mail on Sunday.
Soukya, a £3,000-a-week holistic retreat in Bangalore, is said to feature other big names in its clientele, including Dame Emma Thompson and the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The health retreat offers treatments for a variety of medical conditions including cardiac hypertension and diabetes.
This is Camilla’s ninth visit to the spa, while some of them featured King Charles. In 2019, the monarch stayed at Soukya for his birthday.
According to the Guardian, his treatments were rumoured to include shirodhara (having oil trickled down his forehead), meditation and yoga.
The spa is run by Dr Issac Mathai who was introduced to Their Majesties, according to the Times of India, by Dr Michael Dixon, a health adviser to Charles.
Charles and Camilla are now touring Australia and Samoa, in what is their first visit to the country since the King’s ascension to the throne.
The first day of engagements included visiting the New South Wales Parliament House and St Thomas’ Anglican Church in North Sydney for the Sunday church service.
After the service the royal couple went outside the church to shake hands with well-wishers, who numbered around two hundred people, with some waiting since 5am to catch a glimpse of the royals.
Further away was a small group of around a dozen people, all supporters of First Nations resistance to colonisation, who held up a large banner with the word “Decolonise”.
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