The King visited a newly redeveloped facility at York Hospital that will open as the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Cancer Centre. He was greeted enthusiastically by patients and staff during the tour. Lou Rhodes, 49, who has stage 4 secondary breast cancer, met the King and described her role as a patient representative in the centre’s design and development. Rhodes said the meeting felt immediate and personal, noting shared experience with cancer. She also said her father would have been proud. The King is a royal patron of Macmillan Cancer Support and responded to Rhodes’s account of her father’s death from cancer.
"The monarch was greeted enthusiastically by both patients and staff as he toured the site, which is soon to open as the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Cancer Centre. Among those he met was Lou Rhodes, 49, who lives with stage 4 secondary breast cancer and played a crucial role in the centre's design and development as a patient representative. Ms Rhodes, from Hopgrove in York, said: It was amazing, an absolute honour. A true honour."
"Ms Rhodes said: It was amazing, an absolute honour. A true honour. The King was just lovely, so personable, so friendly. I just seemed to connect with him straightaway. He's got cancer, I've got cancer, and straightaway he sort of looked in my eyes, so you've got that bond I suppose. And I think he gets it, he understands, being a patient."
"Ms Rhodes, who lost her father to cancer, said: My dad would have been so proud of us today. She said that after telling the King about her father's death from cancer, he said: There's such a lot of it about. The King, royal patron of Macmillan Cancer Support, met"
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