{"id":716203,"date":"2026-06-05T04:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716203\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:49:13","slug":"in-pictures-princess-catherine-shares-emotional-moment-with-cancer-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716203\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Princess Catherine shares emotional moment with cancer patient"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Christie Hospital in Manchester an “end of treatment bell” rings in celebration of young mum Claire Lorente who has completed her course of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n

Standing beside the 30-year-old and cheering her on is the Princess of Wales, who is no stranger to battling cancer.<\/p>\n

In a tearful moment in front of family members and staff, Princess Catherine offers Claire a hug.<\/p>\n

June 4 marks the last day of her treatment for breast cancer.<\/p>\n

The royal, who kept a reassuring hand on Claire’s arm as they spoke, called it an “amazing” day after a “tough” journey.<\/p>\n

“Well done you, what a journey! You have done brilliantly. Well done,” Catherine tells Claire.<\/p>\n

\"Princess Princess Catherine clapped as Claire Lorente rung the end of treatment bell.(Reuters: Andy Stenning\/Pool)\"Princess The princess said it was an “amazing” day for Claire.(Reuters: Andy Stenning\/Pool)<\/p>\n

Catherine also embraces Claire’s partner Pablo and says: “Well done. It’s just as hard for the family and loved ones.”<\/p>\n

She adds, “I know how hard it was for the children and my parents. You go through it with them.”<\/p>\n

There wasn’t a dry eye in the room when the noise of the bell rung, marking the end of a chapter for Claire.<\/p>\n

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Princess Catherine made the solo visit to Christie’s, which is considered one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, looking after more than 60,000 patients a year.<\/p>\n

Among its holistic therapies, all free of charge to patients and carers, are drop-in art classes, a well-being garden and a chaplaincy service.<\/p>\n

The princess visited all of these and even joined in an art session with six patients.<\/p>\n

\"Princess This is the second cancer-related outing of the week for Princess Catherine.(Reuters: Andy Stenning\/Pool)\"Princess The princess joined in an art session with six cancer patients.(Reuters: Andy Stenning\/Pool)\"Princess The princess visited the Teenage and Young Adult unit to speak to staff, young patients and their families.(Reuters: Andy Stenning\/Pool)<\/p>\n

Talking about having cancer, she said it “changes you in so many ways”.<\/p>\n

“Physically but also emotionally and psychologically, and actually finding ways to express that and to explore that is quite difficult.<\/p>\n

“To do this in a clinical setting is really important.”<\/p>\n

Roger Spencer, chief executive of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, said it had been an “honour to introduce the princess to the patients and staff involved” in the hospital.<\/p>\n

\"Princess Princess Catherine received a warm welcome at Christie Hospital.(X: @KensingtonRoyal)<\/p>\n

Following the visit, Catherine posted on social media that meeting patients, families and staff had been “a powerful reminder that healing is about so much more than treatment alone”.<\/p>\n

“A cancer diagnosis affects every part of life, in mind, body and the deeper part of ourselves,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Thank you for sharing your stories with me, and for the compassion, creativity and dedication shown every day across the hospital.”<\/p>\n

This was the second cancer-related outing of the week for the princess, who joined King Charles<\/a> and other members of the royal family at a reception commemorating the 125th anniversary of Cancer Research UK.<\/p>\n

In March 2024, the princess went public with her diagnosis<\/a> of an unspecified form of cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She underwent chemotherapy and announced she was in remission<\/a> in January 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Christie Hospital in Manchester an “end of treatment bell” rings in celebration of young mum Claire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,347537,347539,134,63584,347540,347538,100920,25442,13935],"class_list":["post-716203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-christie-hospital","tag-claire-lorente","tag-entertainment","tag-princess-catherine","tag-princess-catherine-cancer","tag-princess-catherine-hugs-cancer-patient","tag-princess-kate","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}