{"id":65530,"date":"2025-05-01T11:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/65530\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:23:08","slug":"sarah-ferguson-duchess-of-york-makes-a-surprise-royal-engagement-as-she-supports-king-charles-following-his-moving-cancer-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/65530\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, makes a surprise royal engagement as she supports King Charles following his moving cancer statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It came after King Charles issued a deeply personal statement, in which he opened up about his \u2018daunting and at times frightening\u2019 experience with his own cancer diagnosis. In the poignant message, the King described how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/living\" isautogenerated=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">living<\/a> with cancer had brought into \u2018sharp focus the very best of humanity,\u2019 but also how the \u2018extraordinary work\u2019 of cancer charities had reinforced for him how \u2018the darkest moments of illness can be illuminated by the greatest compassion\u2019. His Majesty encouraged fellow cancer patients to take inspiration from Dame Deborah James, who died from the disease in 2022, quoting her final message to \u2018find a life worth enjoying; take risks; love deeply; have no regrets; and always, always have rebellious hope.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>X content<\/p>\n<p>This content can also be viewed on the site it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RE_DailyMail\/status\/1917662471315132647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Opens in a new window\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLink-dJZMSz iUEiRd hwrguO hrZZO\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s King Charles III and Britain&#8217;s Queen Camilla pose for a photo with Lorraine Kelly and members of the Change + Check Choir during a reception to celebrate the charitable work being undertaken by local and national cancer charities and support organisations at Buckingham Palace<\/p>\n<p>YUI MOK\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the message, the King paid tribute to the researchers, healthcare professionals, volunteers and fundraisers who dedicate themselves to helping those living with cancer, telling them \u2018you have my whole family\u2019s deepest admiration and gratitude.\u2019 And indeed, the royal family gathered at Buckingham Palace to show their support for cancer charity representatives, including radio DJ Adele Roberts, former England football players Ashley Cain and actor Richard E Grant.<\/p>\n<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/public\" isautogenerated=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public<\/a> may be used to seeing the Firm support King Charles at these receptions, especially one so personal to His Majesty, it will have come as a shock to many to see Sarah Ferguson invited to the official engagement. The Duchess is rarely seen at such events, though it is understandable that King Charles sought her attendance: Fergie has been an especially dedicated advocate for cancer charities since she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023 and skin cancer in 2024, but has spent her life supporting foundations working to cure the disease. She was named a patron of the Teenage Cancer Trust in 1990, worked with the American Cancer Society throughout the noughties, and last year became a patron of Prevent Breast Cancer.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It came after King Charles issued a deeply personal statement, in which he opened up about his \u2018daunting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[14184,518,12,5105,7710,519,448,14183],"class_list":{"0":"post-65530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-duchess-of-york","9":"tag-king-charles-iii","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-royal","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family","14":"tag-royals","15":"tag-sarah"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114432324782933119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65530","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=65530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}