When Buckingham Palace announced King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis in February, there was an outpouring of emotion in the UK, along with some concern about the monarch not being able to greet his public on a daily basis. From the beginning, the king balanced his treatments with his duties, and he reportedly told his medical team that attending Trooping the Colour, the parade that marks his birthday, was nonnegotiable.

By the time the June celebration rolled around, the king was out on the Buckingham Palace balcony with Queen Camilla at his side. On this week’s episode of DYNASTY: The Royal Family’s Most Challenging Year, hosts Claire Howorth, Katie Nicholl, and Erin Vanderhoof return to the unprecedented events of the year, and Charles’s embrace of radical (for royals, anyway) transparency.

Though the king has returned to full-time royal work and has been joining his wife at events across the nation, the obstacles that the family has faced this year have already raised serious questions about Charles’s plan to “slim down” the monarchy. Have the months since his coronation proven exactly how resilient the Windsors can be?