Prince William updates Kate about cancer during royal visit

The Prince of Wales has given a positive update on his wife’s cancer treatment – saying she is “doing well”. William was asked about Kate as he visited the Isles of Scilly’s only hospital to learn about a major building project to improve facilities built on land owned by his Duchy of Cornwall.

Tracy Smith, administrator at St Mary’s Community Hospital in Hugh Town, greeted William when he arrived and gave him a tour of the small medical center after his visit to the harbor where his entourage bought Cornish cakes.

Mrs Smith said: “I asked William about his wife Kate and he said: ‘She’s doing well, thank you’ and I suggested they might like to come and visit and bring the children.” The Princess of Wales appealed for her family to have time, space and privacy when she announced her diagnosis of an undisclosed form of cancer on March 22 and said she had started chemotherapy.

William received a card for his father the King – also suffering from cancer – and Kate from Matron Lynda McHale, who said: “It was a card from my niece who wanted to wish her father and his wife “get well soon”.