WE'RE WITH YOU ALL THE WAY, KATE!
Cancer patients around the world unite in support for princess
She’s part of a new royal family. Cancer patients and survivors rallied around Kate Middleton Saturday to boost the ailing princess with their love and support after she revealed her own shock diagnosis.
“We’re sisters for life,” Long Island breast cancer survivor Roseanne Simone told The Post. Cancer “is life-altering, but it does not define us,” said Simone, 57, who beat the disease five years ago.
“I’m praying for her,” Simone continued. “It’s the least I can do, but it’s really the most I can do.”
An ocean away, the family of little Mila Sneddon was still gutted by the shocking announcement by the Princess of Wales.
Kindness for ailing girl
Kate bonded with Mila, then 5, in 2021, after including the girl’s photo in her book “Hold Still: A Portrait of Our Nation in 2020.”
“We are deeply saddened upon hearing the news,” Lynda Sneddon, Mila’s mother, posted on X Saturday. “A kind caring soul who has always championed Mila both during and after her treatment.”
The heartbreaking picture shows the child, bald from chemotherapy as she battled leukemia, kissing her father through a window during their forced separation in the COVID-triggered national lockdown.
A year later, Kate treated Mila to high tea at Holyrood Palace — dressed all in pink, the little girl’s favorite color.
The royal family remained silent Saturday, making no public appearances or statements in the hours after the princess disclosed her plight.
But a bevy of celebrities who have grappled with cancer rushed to boost her spirits.
“To Princess Kate, I admire your strength thru the endless onslaught,” actress Shannen Doherty, who has stage 4 breast cancer and had surgery to remove a brain tumor last year, posted on Instagram.
Olivia Munn, who went public with her breast cancer diagnosis earlier this month, praised Kate’s bravery.
“Thank you for showing what it’s like to fight with grace and determination for yourself and for your family,” Munn wrote on Instagram. “Wishing you all the best.”
Meanwhile, former “Baywatch” star Nicole Eggert, who is currently fighting breast cancer, told TMZ she will “pray for strength and send her healing.”
“Getting a cancer diagnosis is such a personal thing,” Eggert said. “I think the public onslaught, yeah, it adds this horrific amount of pressure, and this is a time when she shouldn’t be feeling any pressure.”
Her longtime advocacy
Kate’s fight against cancer began long before she was diagnosed — she’s made it a focus of her charity work for years.
In 2010, she and Prince William chose the Teenage Cancer Trust Christmas Spectacular, a fundraiser in Norfolk, as their highprofile first public outing after announcing their engagement.
“Our thoughts are with Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, and we wish her all the best for her treatment,” said Emma Greaves, the group’s deputy director.
In 2012, Kate selected East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice, which cares for children with terminal illnesses, as one of her first major charities, deeming it a “royal patronage.”
The group praised their “wonderful patron” on Facebook Saturday, lauding “the huge empathy and total compassion she has shown to so many children and families” there.
And in 2018, the then-duchess donated her own hair to make wigs for kids with cancer.
“It was sent using someone else’s name, so that the trust didn’t know it was from a royal source,” an insider said. “It’s lovely to think somewhere a little girl is happily wearing a wig made from a real princess’s hair.”
Also Saturday, Charles Spencer, the brother of the late Princess Diana, praised Kate’s “incredible strength and poise” in a post on X — a touching tribute from the family of the mother-in-law she never knew.
Separately, palace insiders spoke of the warm relationship between the princess and King Charles, who is said to have regularly visited Kate’s hospital room when both royals were at the London Clinic recovering from surgery.
“When they were in hospital together there was a lot of toddling down the corridor to spend time with her,” a source told the Sunday Times of London.