A touch of Diana from William and Kate
Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
He hadn’t slept after a frantic night of emergency rescues in his RAF helicopter.
But no amount of drama in the air was going to stop Prince William making one important stop on solid ground yesterday.
Almost 30 years after Princess Diana toured the Royal Marsden Hospital in Surrey on her first solo engagement in 1982, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited to meet young cancer sufferers.
And they chatted animatedly to the patients in the hospital’s new £18million Oak Centre for Children and Young People, sharing a joke with leukaemia sufferer Digby Davidson after making themselves comfortable on his bed.
The 14-year-old, who thought he had beaten his cancer but has spent much of the last three months in hospital after a relapse, said: “They were really laid-back.”
The Duke also rolled up his sleeves as he met seven-year-old Ellis Andrews, who is waiting for a bone marrow transplant, while the Duchess chatted to Fabian Bate, nine, who was in the middle of four hours of chemotherapy to treat acute lymphoblastic leukaemia for the second time.
His mother Lydia, 50, said: “Kate asked loads of questions and said she was sorry the treatment hadnÕt worked first time round.” - Daily Mail