The King enjoyed a ‘blissful’ Indian spa break on his way home from his grueling tour of Australia and Samoa.
The 75-year-old monarch has just spent three days at the exclusive SOUKYA resort, famous for its yoga and wellness programs and Ayurvedic treatments.
The Mail understands that His Majesty has decided to break up the arduous 35-hour journey back from the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in the South Pacific with a mini-break with his wife, Queen Camilla.
She also visited the exclusive £3,000-a-week resort in Bangalore en route to Sydney for the start of their 11-day, 50,000km tour.
The renowned holistic center has a large celebrity clientele including Dame Emma Thompson and the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
King Charles III and Queen Camila enjoyed a ‘blissful’ Indian spa break on their way home from their tour of Australia and Samoa
The 75-year-old monarch spent three days at the exclusive SOUKYA resort, pictured here
Both Charles and Camila attended the holistic health retreat in Bangalore, South India in 2019
Soukya is led by Dr. Issac Mathai, who has been His Majesty’s Holistic Health Consultant for decades. He has previously exposed the royal family as ‘the least demanding of my guests’.
Their King and Queen Days started with morning yoga sessions, followed by breakfast and rejuvenation treatments before a healthy vegetarian lunch.
A second round of therapies follows the midday meal and ends with a meditation session before dinner. The lights go out at 9 p.m.
It is important to emphasize that the stay and therapies are not related to the king’s ongoing cancer treatment.
Sources say it was simply a chance for Charles to rest and reset after a tough trip abroad.
As exclusively revealed by the Daily Mail, the sovereign paused his unspecified cancer treatment with the consent of his doctors to undertake the trip.
In fact, the tour was considered such a success that medics have now cleared the King to undertake a normal program of foreign visits next year, subject to continued medical advice.
The exclusive resort is known for its yoga and wellness programs and Ayurvedic treatments
The Mail understands that His Majesty has decided to break his journey from the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in the South Pacific with a mini-break with his wife
The renowned holistic center has a host of celebrity clients, including Dame Emma Thompson
Charles helps plant a tree at the Soykya resort on his 71st birthday in November 2019
The King and Queen attended a ceremony on the last day of the royal visit to Australia and Samoa
The king has visited the spa several times with his wife and is said to love the tranquility and attention for body, mind and soul.
The center is set within 30 hectares of lush, tropical ornamental gardens and organic farmland where fresh milk is collected daily from the company’s own herd of cows and home-grown vegetables are picked to prepare delicious vegetarian meals (meat, sugar and alcohol are of course all prohibited, just like mobile phones).
Guests enjoy a relaxing stay packed with yoga, meditation, massage and reflexology based on ancient Indian medicinal principles.
There is also a daily morning dose of ‘shirodhara’, a soothing treatment that involves dropping oil on the forehead to realize your emotions, and massages with warm compresses filled with herbs to relieve back and neck tension.
The rooms are elegant but not opulent and feature four-poster wooden beds, outdoor showers and hydrotherapy baths.
The cost of the trip was said to have been paid privately by the king and was carried out on commercial flights.