[HIGHLIGHTS] A week ago, King Charles III had been discharged from a London clinic after having undergone prostate surgery.

The King of England, Charles III, left the London hospital where he had been admitted the previous Friday, when he underwent surgery for an enlarged prostate. A crowd of curious onlookers and journalists gathered at the exit of the hospital to greet the monarch, who appeared smiling and in apparent good health.

Charles III was diagnosed with benign prostatic hypertrophy on January 17 after experiencing undisclosed symptoms. Just a few hours earlier, the king's daughter-in-law, Catherine, Princess of Wales, had left that same center, having undergone " abdominal surgery "