The King has held his first in-person Privy Council and audience with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Buckingham Palace since being diagnosed with cancer. His Majesty told the Mr Sunak that cards and messages of support from the public "reduced me to tears." Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
00:02 Good evening, Your Majesty.
00:04 Very nice to see you.
00:06 And wonderful.
00:08 Well, yeah, wonderful to see you looking so well.
00:10 Well, it's all done by mirrors.
00:12 [laughter]
00:14 Well, we're all behind you.
00:16 The country's behind you.
00:18 I know because I've had so many wonderful messages
00:20 and cards and you've reduced me to tears most of the time.
00:22 I can imagine.
00:24 Well, I can imagine.
00:26 But everyone is behind you.
00:28 And it's also, it's been nice to see the spotlight that it's shone on the work that charities do.
00:34 In this area which I'm sure you'll be about as well.
00:38 Yeah, I hear that there's been a lot more attention and interest on those main wonderful cancer charities.
00:46 Many of which I've been a patron of for years.
00:48 They do incredible work up and down the country.
00:50 They do, they do.
00:52 It's actually nice to have that recognition.