‘The darkness lifted – and life became indescribably beautiful’: In a deeply moving message to Kate, cancer-survivor JANE GREEN reveals the one daily habit she’s convinced helped save her [Video]

12:37 EDT 25 Mar 2024 , updated 15:39 EDT 25 Mar 2024

The Princess of Wales, poised and stoic in her Friday video revealing her cancer diagnosis, gave no indication of the many things she is likely to be feeling, the fears she is dealing with, the thoughts that keep her awake in the middle of the night.

Her priority is not only going to be her health, but the emotional wellbeing of her three young children, ensuring they know only what they absolutely need to, with all the positive spin she can muster: Mummy will be OK.

When, in 2014, I was diagnosed aged 46 with malignant melanoma — a particularly aggressive form of skin cancer that couldn’t simply be scraped away and forgotten, but the type that required surgery and biopsies of nearby lymph nodes, six-monthly check-ups and recurring worries about my surgeon’s warning that ‘melanomas have a habit of returning’ – my children seemed surprisingly unbothered.