IT is a heartfelt hug, shared by two people whose lives have been hit by cancer, tightly holding each other in solidarity. They know the fear of being told you have cancer and of enduring gruelling treatment. Those who haven’t been in their shoes can never truly understand in the way photographer Liz Hatton and the Princess of Wales have been forced to.
On the surface these two women have little in common. One is a 16-year-old from North Yorkshire and the other is our future Queen, but as they embraced , their differences fell away. She may be a princess, but as Kate gently leant in, it was a moment of sheer human — and not just royal — empathy.
READ MORE ON OPINION And it was clear that Kate needed that hug just as much as Liz did. Kate had always shown love and kindness, fairness and compassion for others. She had the life experiences thanks to the support of her loving, solid family and attending one of the best schools in the country, which helped her excel not only in academia but sport too.
She found love with the most eligible man in the country and her down-to-earth attitude has meant they have given their children a happy, carefree childhood unlike any young royals have ever had before. Most read in The Sun Her life appeared to be picture- perfect — if you exclude her wayward brother-in-law and his wife from the picture. But in January her apparently gilded world changed for ever in the cruellest and most terrifying of ways when she fell ill.
She bravely re.