When King Charles III and Queen Camilla chose India for their “private stopover” to break a long journey back from a hectic overseas tour of Australia and Samoa, it said a lot about his wellness outlook and connect with the country’s leading exports of Yoga and Ayurveda.
“Their Majesties had a short private stopover in India to help break the long journey back from Samoa,” a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said in a statement last week.
While there were no further official details released on the location chosen by Britain’s royals, palace sources said the couple had chosen a site well-known to them both and that they have visited several times before. This familiar location is none other than SOUKYA International Holistic Health Centre (SIHHC) at Whitefield in Bengaluru – in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Both the King and Queen are known for their inclination towards holistic health and wellness, having made a number of visits to this centre over the years.
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SOUKYA's 30-acre Organic Farm is described as a holistic health destination to restore the body’s natural balance of mind, body and spirit. The first-of-its-kind healing sanctuary practises a treatment approach that integrates different traditional, time-tested and natural systems of medicine like Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Yoga and Naturopathy and other complementary therapies, SIHHC states. Having welcomed the royal couple in the past, it even boasts of a tree on its grounds planted by the Queen back in November 2012.
Back in April 2018, he hosted Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Science Museum in London to launch a new Ayurvedic Centre of Excellence, aimed at creating a first-of-its-kind global network for evidence-based research on Yoga and Ayurveda.
British High Commissioner to India Lindy Cameron also recently highlighted the King’s bond with India during his birthday celebrations in New Delhi.
Cameron said: "He is fascinated by Indian culture, and I think he loved his last visit to Delhi and Mumbai. So, I know it's a country that has a special place in his heart and I think it's wonderful to be here.”
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King Charles, who turns 76 on November 14, is undergoing treatment for cancer and Buckingham Palace has indicated that he will resume his medical treatment cycle in the UK at the conclusion of his overseas tour. Following Australia, King Charles attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in the Pacific Island nation of Samoa as the head of the 56-member organisation. His aides have said that the monarch is keen to get back into a regular programme of overseas travel after the successful tour last month.
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