{"id":134980,"date":"2025-05-27T04:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134980\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T04:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:12:10","slug":"sudbury-cancer-survivor-describes-meeting-king-charles-at-buckingham-palace-reception-as-pinch-me-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134980\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudbury cancer survivor describes meeting King Charles at Buckingham Palace reception as \u2018pinch-me moment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meeting King Charles at Buckingham Palace was \u2018a real pinch-me moment\u2019, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suffolknews.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suffolk<\/a> cancer survivor, following a special event for the charity which supported her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suffolknews.co.uk\/sudbury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudbury<\/a> resident Rachel Mann described the honour of attending a royal reception, in recognition of the work by cancer care organisation Hope for Tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>She was invited to represent the charity for the occasion, having previously been one of its patients in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1600 1200\" alt=\"Reception for Hope for Tomorrow at Buckingham Palace. From left: CEO Tina Seymour; operations co-ordinator Jayne Foster; cancer care unit driver Bryan Baird; former patient Rachel Mann; and high value partnership manager Emma Bowles. Picture supplied by Hope for Tomorrow.\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"S8M53ANGU5C441RQIN68.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.33\"\/>Reception for Hope for Tomorrow at Buckingham Palace. From left: CEO Tina Seymour; operations co-ordinator Jayne Foster; cancer care unit driver Bryan Baird; former patient Rachel Mann; and high value partnership manager Emma Bowles. Picture supplied by Hope for Tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving a diagnosis of breast cancer at the age of 39, Rachel underwent her treatment on board Frisbey \u2013 Hope for Tomorrow\u2019s West Suffolk-based mobile cancer unit \u2013 outside Sudbury Community Health Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the charity were invited to meet the King \u2013 who himself was diagnosed with cancer last year \u2013 as part of a reception in honour of health groups and community projects that support cancer patients.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel said: \u201cIt was a true honour and privilege to attend the event at Buckingham Palace with Hope for Tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a wonderful opportunity to speak to representatives from so many other charities \u2013 whether raising awareness of the disease or helping to make the lives of those with a diagnosis a little easier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was certainly an evening I\u2019ll never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emma Bowles, high value partnership manager at Hope for Tomorrow, said: \u201cIt was an amazing experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had time to talk to the King and Queen Camilla, to share the essential community-based cancer care and services we provide in the county and across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir current personal experience and journey was very much front of mind and they showed real interest in what we do, which was very heartening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an important moment for us and we hope that more public awareness and support will come from the occasion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meeting King Charles at Buckingham Palace was \u2018a real pinch-me moment\u2019, according to a Suffolk cancer survivor, following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,105,257,59214,35217,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-134980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-sudbury","14":"tag-suffolk-homepage","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114577850042515026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}