Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, (divorced) wife of Prince Andrew announces that she has “melanoma”. “After being diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer this autumn, Sarah, Duchess of York, has now been diagnosed with malignant melanoma,” a spokesperson for her said.
In less than a week, the third alarm bell on the health of the Windsors after the operation of the Princess of Wales, Catherine, and after the hospitalization this week of King Charles III for corrective prostate surgery.
The melanoma was detected during a visit for reconstructive surgery following Sarah Ferguson’s mastectomy months ago. “The Duchess – continues her spokesperson – remains optimistic: she is undergoing further investigations to ascertain whether the melanoma was detected in the initial phase”.
At Christmas, after thirty years of ostracism, King Charles III had extended the invitation to the traditional Christmas Windsor gathering at Sandringham also to the duchess who had arrived with her husband Andrew, who, despite being divided by the divorce, never let him miss his support during the legal battle of the Epstein/Giuffre case. And even during the difficult phase of exclusion from public life, she played an official role for the Windsor Firm.
For breast cancer, the duchess had undergone surgery at King Edward VII, the hospital in the heart of London where, for example, Prince Philip was hospitalized for a long time in the last season before the end in 2021.
And even the Duchess of York, like King Charles a few days ago, wanted to transform the announcement of her serious health problem into an invitation to monitor and keep her health under control. As her daughter Eugenie had already done when she had decided to show off with the neckline of her wedding dress the long scar on her back due to a corrective operation on her scoliosis when it was small.
«I don’t consider myself anything, but I would like to use the power of communication to get messages across – she told us a few years ago when we interviewed her for the Corriere -. And if there was a moment in which I was very silent, now I feel the duty to expose myself more, for the charities with which I am involved, for example Children in Crisis”.
The duchess, confessing that she “always speaks from the heart, I say what I think not what they suggest me to say”, had told of her “fight against obesity. Because I have been fighting against obesity since I was 12, I know what it means to be bullied at school for your physical shape.”
For years, with the Michelle Obama Foundation, Sarah Ferguson has been committed «to a healthier America and a healthier world – concluded the duchess -. And I tried as a mother to raise my daughters so that they understood the need to give something back (of what life has given them). Today both are very active with charities.”
2024-01-21 22:41:15
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