Queen Camilla Hosts Medical Detection Dogs Reception

Queen Camilla hosted a reception Tuesday at Clarence House to celebrate the work of Medical Detection Dogs, the charity she has supported as patron since 2014. Among the guests was James Middleton, brother of the Princess of Wales and an ambassador for the organization, who greeted the queen with a kiss on the cheek.

The event featured demonstrations by the charity's specially trained canines, which detect diseases and alert owners to medical episodes through their acute sense of smell. In the residence's hallway, Camilla patted the heads of two Bio Detection Dogs: nine-year-old golden Labrador Jodie, trained to identify bowel cancer, and 11-year-old fox red Labrador Floren, who detects prostate cancer. Jodie performed live by correctly spotting bowel cancer in urine samples among four options.

The queen also met six-year-old black Labrador Wolfie, a Medical Alert Assistance Dog owned by Lucy Burls, 39, from Bristol. Wolfie alerts Burls to impending spikes in her Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome symptoms through eye contact or by resting his head on her lap. Burls told Camilla that Wolfie travels with her on planes, speedboats and double-decker buses, prompting surprise...