Princess of Wales says nature her ‘sanctuary' amid cancer recovery
'Over the past year nature has been my sanctuary,' Catherine said in the video.
This year's Mental Health Awareness Week, we are celebrating humanity's longstanding connection to nature, and its capacity to inspire us and help us to heal and grow in mind, body and spirit.
As we confront the challenges of an increasingly complex and digital world,… pic.twitter.com/lmxzxJUsiO
— The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) May 12, 2025
Nature also enabled us to understand 'the importance of balance and the importance of renewal and resilience', she added, without making any direct reference to her own cancer recovery.
Acclaiming spring as the season of 'rebirth of hope and new beginnings', Catherine added: 'Just as nature revives and renews, so too can we.'
Catherine, 43, announced she had been diagnosed with an unspecified cancer and was having chemotherapy in March 2024.
The shock announcement came just weeks after officials revealed in February the same year that King Charles, 76, had also been diagnosed with cancer.
The video and its focus on the power of nature to heal and nurture returns to the theme Catherine chose in September when she announced she had completed her chemotherapy.
That video featured the future queen with William and their three children — George, 11, Charlotte, 10, and Louis, 7 — in woods and at a beach in eastern England near their country home after an 'incredibly tough' few months.
Catherine, whose main work has focused on early years child development, has been making a gradual return to public life and revealed in January she is now in remission.
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