Overview

• During the welcoming ceremony for President Emmanuel Macron on July 8, King Charles appeared with a visibly bloodshot right eye.
• Buckingham Palace confirmed the redness resulted from a burst blood vessel in the eye and has no link to his ongoing cancer treatment.
• Mayo Clinic experts describe a subconjunctival hemorrhage as a harmless bruise on the eye surface that clears up naturally within one to two weeks without affecting vision.
• The monarch maintained full ceremonial duties at Windsor Castle, including a horse-drawn procession and state banquet, throughout Macron’s three-day state visit.
• President Macron’s visit is the first by an EU head of state since Brexit and was arranged at King Charles’s invitation to strengthen UK–EU relations.