King Charles issues moving personal cancer message about ‘daunting’ and ‘frightening’ diagnosis as he reveals he took inspiration from late Dame Deborah James

King Charles issues moving personal cancer message about ‘daunting’ and ‘frightening’ diagnosis as he reveals he took inspiration from late Dame Deborah James

The King has described the ‘daunting’ and ‘frightening’ experience of being told you have cancer.

In what has been described as his most ‘poignant’ and ‘deeply personal’ words about the illness fifteen months after his own diagnosis, the monarch also revealed he had taken inspiration from the late Dame Deborah James.

She urged sufferers, he said, with moving magnificence to ‘find a life worth enjoying; take risks; love deeply; have no regrets; and always, always have rebellious hope.’