With stage four cancer, little Diamond Marshall may not live to see her dream of meeting Sleeping Beauty’s Princess Aurora at Disneyland.
Diamond was so thrilled by the opportunity, that instead of passing across the bouquet, she flung herself forward for a hug, much to Catherine’s delight. As well as the colourful posy, Diamond also presented a heart-shaped trinket box, containing a friendship bracelet she had made for the Duchess herself.
It was a rare moment of joy for the youngster, who has been suffering from undifferentiated sarcoma, a rare childhood cancer that affects the body’s soft tissues.
Since her diagnosis in February, she has been through surgery and spent weeks in and out of hospital, and has lost her hair due to chemotherapy treatment for the tumour on her abdomen. Her illness is fresh hardship for the family following the loss of her mother, Memory Marshall, to a different cancer four years ago, at the age of just 32.
Diamond’s stepmother, Danielle Marshall, 32, said how she and her husband Lyall, 37, made the kindergartener’s dream a reality.
It read: ‘Dear Princess Kate. My name is Diamond Ann. I am six. I was named after Princess Diana. My Mommy Memory is in heaven with her.
‘I have cancer. I spend a lot of time at the hospital. I watched you get married from my bed there. You looked pretty.
‘I like playing Princess dress up. My favourite princess is Aurora. Who is yours. I would really like to meet you. Do you wait [sic] to meet me too? ‘
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