Princess of Wales: My chemotherapy is over, now I’m focused on staying cancer-free

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/09/09/princess-of-wales-chemotherapy-over-staying-cancer-free/

by TheTelegraph

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  1. **From The Telegraph’s Royal Editor, Hannah Furness:**

    The Princess of Wales has finished her chemotherapy and is now focused on staying cancer free, she has said.

    In an emotional message, accompanied by footage of the Princess and her young family, she said her illness had given her a “new perspective on everything” and a renewed focus on the “simple yet important things in life”.

    Acknowledging publicly that the “cancer journey” had been “complex, scary and unpredictable for everyone”, she said it brings patients “ face-to-face with your own vulnerabilities in a way you have never considered before”.

    The Princess will begin her gradual return to a light programme of public engagements after completing her course of chemotherapy.

    But she emphasised: “Doing what I can to stay cancer-free is now my focus.”

    The video, shot in Norfolk in August, shows the Wales family as they have never been seen by the public before.

    The Prince and Princess are filmed kissing, her head resting on his shoulder, and enveloping Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis in hugs.

    Catherine is seen walking through corn fields, driving, playing cards with her parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, helping the children climb trees and scramble up haybales.

    In one intimate shot, the family are seen lying on a Norfolk beach, embracing.

    It is intended to illustrate the Princess’s message that she has renewed gratitude for her “simple yet important things in life”, “of simply loving and being loved”.

    The Princess is expected to attend a handful of public engagements before the end of the year, subject to changes in her health.

    They are likely to include appearing at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday and hosting her annual Westminster Abbey carol concert for children. She will also hold a “small number” of meetings, some of which will appear in the Court Circular.

    In March, the Princess released a video message telling the world that, following major abdominal surgery in January “tests after the  operation found cancer had been present” and that her “medical team therefore advised that I should  undergo a course of preventative chemotherapy”.

    In her second video message, released on Monday, she said: “Doing what I can to stay cancer free is now my focus.”

    The footage was filmed by Will Warr, who has previously produced videos of the Princess and her children visiting a baby bank, and of the family preparing for the Coronation.

    It includes what appears to be self-shot footage, with Prince George saying “is this on?” as he fiddles with a camera, and his siblings shouting “hello!”

    **Article Link:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/09/09/princess-of-wales-chemotherapy-over-staying-cancer-free/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/09/09/princess-of-wales-chemotherapy-over-staying-cancer-free/)

  4. I went through 10 months of chemo and If I was private about it someone leaked it so I’d to come out to the world when you’re on such unsteady ground with your health, I’d want to throttle the leak.

  9. Easy to stay cancer free if you don’t have to worry about your income

  10. It’s actually scary when you think about it, by all means they should have everything at their disposal to live a completely healthy, processed food free life, yet she still got cancer so young…no idea what to believe anymore…Im sure healthy food helps but to what extent?

  11. I’m a bit slow but just realised William is married to the princess of Wales and his mother was princess of Wales too.

  12. Wasn’t he totally against chemotherapy publicly? And then took it when he needed it?

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