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The King paid a surprise visit to runners, and walkers, in Sandringham ahead of World Cancer Day on 4 February
Members of a cancer charity had a surprise visit from their royal landlord during a Parkrun earlier.
King Charles III attended the 5km (3 mile) running and walking event at the royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk as a spectator. While there is Parkrun there every Saturday, once a month it is organised with Move Against Cancer charity's 5K Your Way group.
Organisers of the "5KYW" event wrote on Facebook to say they had been left "speechless again".
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Scores of surprised runners were waving at King Charles as they took part in the Parkrun
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The Parkrun at Sandringham takes in two laps of a circuit in the Royal Park
"A heartfelt thank you to His Majesty The King for greeting us on the first lap of Sandringham parkrun in the beautiful setting of the Sandringham Estate this morning," the post continued.
The King has been receiving cancer treatment as an outpatient since early February 2024.
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The circuit includes a "mixture of permanent paths and trail paths"
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Runners may have been surprised, but organisers had a sign ready for Saturday's event
Parkrun was founded in 2004 and now hundreds of thousands of people across 22 countries and five continents take part in free, weekly, timed five-kilometre running events each weekend in parks and other locations.
