STAYING STRONG
King Charles shares emotional video featuring Amy Dowden, Sir Chris Hoy and BBC stars one year on from cancer shock
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KING Charles has shared an emotional video one year on from his shock cancer diagnosis.
The clip - shared on the Royal Family's social media channels for World Cancer Day - also features GB cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy, who revealed late last year he is terminal.
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Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris opened up about his stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis in October.
The 48-year-old dad said doctors gave him up to four years to live.
Strictly star Amy Dowden, who underwent treatment for stage-three breast cancer in 2023, is also featured in the compilation.
As is TV presenter Fearne Cotton, who had two tumours removed from her jawline in December.
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A post alongside the video says: "This World Cancer Day, we are sending love to all those navigating a cancer diagnosis – as well as the incredible doctors, nurses, charities and families who work tirelessly to support them."
The post goes on to list charities which support patients, including MacMillan, Maggie's Centres and Cancer Research UK.
In the video, Sir Chris says: "We're all in this together, you're not alone. Keep living life every single day, and keep smiling, and don't forget to enjoy the here and now."
Amy says: ";I am sending so much love, strength and thoughts to those affected by cancer.
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"I remember after I was diagnosed nurse telling me to stop holding it all in. If I needed to have a good cry, let it all out."
Other celebrities featured include Tom Daley, Adele Roberts, Johnny Nelson, Victoria Derbyshire and Gok Wan.
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It comes after news the King's cancer treatment is "moving in a positive direction" and is continuing into 2025.
A source told Sky News in December: "His treatment has been moving in a positive direction.
"As a managed condition the treatment cycle will continue into next year."
Charles endured a difficult second year on the throne - with not only his own cancer diagnosis but also that of daughter-in-law Princess Kate.
But the source said the brave king had coped with the past year with a "determination to be as public as he was able" to reassure the nation about how much he could still do.
The Princess of Wales has since returned to full royal duties.
Yesterday, Kate shared a photo taken by Prince Louis to mark World Cancer Day, alongside a sweet message about "what lies beyond the disease".
A second image taken by the Princess showed leaves covered in frost.
Kate's message read: "Don’t forget to nurture all that which lies beyond the disease. C #WorldCancerDay"
KING'S CANCER BATTLE
Just 16 months into his reign, Charles' announcement that he was battling cancer sent shock waves throughout the world.
But just six months later he was deemed fit enough to travel 10,000 miles for a gruelling tour of Australia and Samoa.
Most recently, he became the first British monarch to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland to mark the 80th year of its liberation.
Charles underwent a carefully constructed treatment plan inspired by Operation Bubble which protected the late Queen from Covid-19 was thrown into action.
He would have weekly treatment in London and factor in vital periods of rest time at Sandringham, Highgrove and Windsor.
The King was withdrawn from all public duty for 103 days although he continued reading government red boxes.
The Royal Household copied Covid-style protocols — or tiers imposed by the Government during the pandemic — to minimise secondary infection such as seasonal cold or flu.
A source said: “We had to minimise potential risk from other people, not because he couldn’t do the job.”
But as winter turned into spring and weather became warmer it meant they could relax the Covid-style tiers.
This was demonstrated when the King emerged from the Easter Sunday service and was greeted by 60 well-wishers at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
Just days earlier, the monarch and his team had received news that the treatment had gone better than anyone could have expected.
One insider said: “He was raring to go after the positive results and didn’t want to hang around any longer”.
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It meant the King told aides that a trip to Australia, seen as the most important tour a monarch will ever take, must go ahead in the autumn, as first revealed by The Sun.
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