Buckingham Palace has issued a new picture of the King as he celebrates his 76th birthday.
The photograph shows the monarch wearing a smart suit, white shirt and blue pattern tie, with one hand in his pocket as he rests the other on a chair.
The image was shared from the Royal Family’s official X account with a birthday cake emoji and the message: “Wishing His Majesty The King a very Happy Birthday today.”
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The King is treating his birthday as a normal working day and carrying on with his duties despite facing a personally challenging year in which both he and the Princess of Wales were diagnosed with cancer.
He is marking the occasion with a visit to a surplus food festival in Deptford, south London.
He will open the first two Coronation Food Hubs on the first anniversary of the launch of his Coronation Food Project, designed to bridge the gap between food need and food waste in the UK amid the cost-of-living crisis.
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