Adele Roberts: Kate and William were lovely during my cancer journey

Radio presenter Adele Roberts has said the Prince and Princess of Wales wrote to her aft she was declared cancer-free and described it arsenic “lovely”.

The 45-year-old DJ announced she was escaped of the illness successful June 2022, aft being diagnosed with bowel crab successful precocious 2021.

Earlier this year, Kate announced she was undergoing attraction for crab successful an affectional video connection and told others battling the illness “you are not alone”.

Roberts told the Daily Mirror: “It’s unusual that erstwhile I archetypal met William and Catherine, nary of america knew what would laic up for us.

“So, I ran the marathon successful 2017 and 2018 for their intelligence wellness charity, and we didn’t cognize what was successful the future.

“But however unusual that we’re each connected present successful that sense.

“They were astonishing erstwhile I archetypal got diagnosed, and erstwhile I got declared cancer-free they wrote to me, saying: ‘Thank you for sharing your story, due to the fact that it’s going to assistance truthful galore different radical and animate them’.

“They were conscionable truly lovely.

“Catherine going done what she has been done conscionable shows they mean what they accidental due to the fact that she is sharing her communicative and she doesn’t request to.”

She added: “You ne'er know, like, possibly successful a way, them possibly being a small spot alert of what I’ve been done helped Catherine.

“I don’t know. I anticipation it did. I truly do. I haven’t been successful interaction due to the fact that I cognize erstwhile you spell successful done it, it’s hard and she volition beryllium astir apt person felt overwhelmed with conscionable beingness – fto unsocial radical getting successful touch.

“It’s large to spot however she’s responded and shared her story.”

The presenter, who competed connected Dancing On Ice earlier successful the year, has been unfastened astir her crab journey, peculiarly with her usage of a stoma bag, which attaches to her abdomen and collects her faeces, and her acquisition of chemotherapy.

Roberts acceptable a Guinness World Record past twelvemonth arsenic the fastest pistillate to implicit the London Marathon with an ileostomy and is present looking to tackle each of the “big six” marathons crossed the globe.

Kate precocious announced the completion of her chemotherapy attraction successful a profoundly idiosyncratic video with her household and said her absorption was “doing what I tin to enactment cancer-free”.