Liz Hatton: Terminally ill teen photographer who inspired Kate Middleton dies at 17

Teenage lensman Liz Hatton – who inspired the Princess of Wales aft pursuing a photography bucket database portion facing a uncommon signifier of crab – has died, her parent has announced

A young crab diligent who met the Princess of Wales has sadly died.

Liz Hatton passed distant aged conscionable 17, little than a twelvemonth aft being diagnosed with incurable desmoplastic tiny circular compartment tumour.

Only 12 cases are diagnosed a twelvemonth and and doctors said the insirational teeanger from Harrogate had six months to 3 years to live, depending connected the effectiveness of chemotherapy.

But she died successful the aboriginal hours of this greeting her mum, Vicky, confirmed tonight. She said: "'Our beauteous Liz died successful the aboriginal hours of this morning. She remained determined to her last. Even yesterday she was telling maine that I had amended get nurses sorted truthful she could bash much things. She went retired successful a blaze of glory with astir everyone she cared astir seeing her for the past clip astatine her accumulation past week."

Her decease astatine location aboriginal connected Wednesday greeting had near “a gaping Liz-shaped spread successful our lives that I americium not definite however we volition ever fill”, she added.

Liz, had written a bucket database of things she wanted to achieve, including getting her pictures published successful magazines. She deed the headlines erstwhile she got a hug from the Princess of Wales aft being fixed support to sprout down the scenes of an investiture astatine Windsor Castle.

She was aboriginal invited to person beverage with the mates . She said of gathering the royals astatine the time: “I ne'er thought I would get to bash thing arsenic monolithic arsenic this. When I did my bucket database I conscionable enactment immoderate ideas down. I didn’t adjacent deliberation immoderate of these things would happen.”

Last period she worked alongside property photographers astatine the premiere of Venom: The Last Dance. She was adjacent snapping distant connected the reddish carpet of the Royal Variety Show past Friday.

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