King Charles III is expected to use his annual Christmas message to highlight health workers, at the end of a year in which both he and the Princess of Wales were diagnosed with cancer.

King Charles III is expected to use his annual Christmas message broadcast later in the day to highlight health workers. He and close members of the royal family attended Christmas Day services Wednesday at a church on Sandringham,

King Charles III has used his Christmas message to hail the efforts of healthcare workers and all those who support others, before praising the medical staff who provided “strength, care and comfort” during his and the Princess of Wales’ cancer treatments.

Prince Andrew will not be joining his brother King Charles III and other members of the royal family for Christmas this year. Instead, the Duke of York, 64, will “honourably withdraw” from the royal family’s Christmas celebrations at their estate in Sandringham, England to avoid being a distraction, according to the BBC.

Britain's King Charles and members of the royal family attended a Christmas day service on Wednesday (December 25) at St. Mary Magdalene's church on the Sandringham estate. Scandal-hit Prince Andrew was notably absent.

King Charles and his family strolled to St Mary Magdalene, a 16th-century church on the Sandringham estate, part of a royal family tradition that's been going for decades.