Adele Roberts has told how the Princess of Wales sent her a message after she had the all clear from cancer - thanking her for sharing her journey. The Radio 1 presenter, 45, who ran the London Marathon for mental health charity Heads Together in 2017 and 2018 first met Kate during an interview about the race. She said Kate and husband William were “amazing” after she was diagnosed with stage 2 bowel cancer in October 2021.
The Royals later reached out again after learning that Adele was in remission, with a heartfelt letter praising her for helping people by opening up. And Adele now says she hopes knowing her story helped Kate in some small way after she was diagnosed with the disease this year and underwent chemotherapy. Adele said: “It’s strange that when I first met William and Catherine, none of us knew what would lay ahead for us.
So I ran the marathon in 2017 and 2018 for their mental health charity, and we didn't know what was in the future. But how strange that we're all connected now in that sense. They were amazing when I first got diagnosed, and when I got declared cancer free, they wrote to me, saying: ‘Thank you for sharing your story, because it’s going to help so many other people and inspire them.
They were just really lovely. “Catherine going through what she has been through just shows they mean what they say because she is sharing her story and she doesn’t need to. And you never know, like, maybe in a way, them maybe being a little bit awa.