EXCLUSIVE I'm the cancer charity worker who met Princess Kate after the Christmas Day service - what she said will stick with me forever By CHRIS MATTHEWS and FRANKIE ELLIOTT Published: 20:49 EST, 25 December 2024 | Updated: 21:14 EST, 25 December 2024 e-mail View comments Kate Middleton was 'really respectful and grateful' when she spoke to well-wishers after a Christmas Day church service with the King and the rest of the royal family, a charity worker has said. The Princess of Wales and her children joined the King and Queen as they attended the Christmas Day service at Sandringham on Wednesday. She told royals fans she was 'hugely grateful' to the hundreds of people who had written to her offering their support after her cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
One of them was Rachel Anvil - an NHS worker who told the princess she was an 'inspiration' to all the cancer patients who worked on her ward at Royal Papworth Hospital. 'She [Kate] was wonderful,' Rachel told MailOnline. 'She was really respectful and grateful.
She said people like me an other health care workers are the ones who are doing all the hard work. She was really lovely. 'It was real privilege.
We are only down the road. So get close and personal, it not an opportunity that comes up all the time. I shook her hand.
I'm really lucky.' The Princess of Wales replied to Rachel by saying: 'The amount of people who have written this year is extraordinary and I think cancer just really does resonate with so many fami.
