King Charles's 76th Birthday Plans Have Ties to Queen Elizabeth

He isn't taking the day off work.

While the public officially celebrates King Charles’s birthday during June’s high-profile Trooping the Colour parade, the British monarch’s actual birthday falls on Nov. 14 – and the king is reportedly ringing in his 76th birthday with a special project, multiple outlets have reported. Just like on his milestone 75th birthday, Charles isn’t planning to take the day off work on Wednesday, instead hosting a “surplus food festival” on the big day.

For his first birthday while undergoing cancer treatment, Charles will be reportedly piggybacking on his Coronation Food charity that he started last Nov. 14. To expand the initiative, which provides food to those who need it while also aiming to reduce food waste, the king will be launching two Coronation Food distribution centers–one virtual and one in person–to help charities get surplus food to communities in need.

To kick things off, Charles will spend Wednesday touring the in-person facility and hosting a food festival for representatives from food banks and in-need communities where all dishes will be made with surplus food that would have otherwise gone to waste.

While Charles only launched his Coronation Food initiative last year on his 75th birthday, the tradition actually appears to have ties to his late mother, Queen Elizabeth. When he was born on Nov. 14, 1948, the late royal donated parcels of food to every family with a child born on that same day–a major gesture during wartime rationing.

It’s unknown whether Charles will kick off his birthday festivities with a tea party at Highgrove surrounded by his inner circle, as he did last year. The Palace also hasn’t confirmed whether Queen Camilla, who missed a few major royal engagements last week and this weekend due to a chest infection, will be in attendance.