A gift from the King! Young 癌 苦しんでいる人, 11, tells of his excitement as he's 手渡すd 現在のs from Charles and Camilla outside hospital - after 君主 met and held 手渡すs with chemotherapy 患者s on return to public 義務s

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An 11-year-old 癌 患者 said today it was 'very exciting' 会合 the King and Queen after they gave him three 調書をとる／予約するs and a Buckingham Palace chocolate coin.

Ellis Edwards was の中で those gathered at the University College Hospital Macmillan 癌 Centre in London as Charles and Camilla visited this morning.

The boy from Southampton, who is receiving 放射線療法 at the hospital, 迎える／歓迎するd the King and Queen with his mother Carly Edwards and gave them flowers.

Ellis was given Swallows And アマゾンs by Arthur 身代金, The Man Who 工場／植物d Trees by ジーンズ Giono and My Family And Other Animals by Gerald Durrell.

He later said: 'I was telling her (Camilla) about my 治療 and my trip to Leicester Square, going to Hamleys and the cinemas. It was very exciting 会合 them.'

Ms Edwards 追加するd: 'It's a really nice distraction this. I'm really proud of him, he's really 勇敢に立ち向かう and a superstar so it's 広大な／多数の／重要な he can do something nice. He deserves it.'

Ellis and another girl, six-year-old Della Thomas, 現在のd Charles and Camilla with posies as they left the hospital around noon after 会合 癌 患者s.

The 王室のs gave Della of a large stuffed toy Jack Russell dog, based on the Queen's own pet Beth, and some Beefeater stationery ? 同様に as a large chocolate coin.

In 2020, MailOnline 報告（する）／憶測d on how Ellis visited his GP 11 times before he was 設立する to have what doctors 述べるd as the largest tumour they had ever seen.

Queen Camilla speaks to 患者 Ellis Edwards and his mother Carly Edwards during her visit with King Charles to the University College Hospital Macmillan 癌 Centre in London today

Ellis Edwards, 11, who is receiving 放射線療法 at the?University College Hospital Macmillan 癌 Centre in London, met the 王室の couple today and was given three 調書をとる／予約するs as a gift

King Charles receives posies from?six-year-old Della Thomas outside the hospital today

Charles speaks with Della Thomas at the University College Hospital Macmillan 癌 Centre

Charles and Camilla gave Della of a large stuffed toy Jack Russell dog, based on the Queen's own pet Beth, and some Beefeater stationery ? 同様に as a large chocolate coin

Charles smells the flowers after 存在 given them by?six-year-old Della Thomas this morning

Ellis was 診断するd in March 2019 老年の five with a rare childhood 癌 called neuroblastoma, 原因（となる）ing a cancerous tumour which 鎮圧するd his left 肺.

It comes as the King bravely met 癌 患者s on the first public 約束／交戦 since his own diagnosis just hours before he went for 治療 himself.

Charles, 75, said it was a 'bit of a shock' to have been given a 癌 diagnosis, but said he wasn't doing 'too bad'.

Asked how he was, by a 患者 を受けるing chemotherapy, the King replied: 'Not too bad. It's always a bit of a shock, isn't it, when they tell you?'

During the visit with Camilla, he was asked 繰り返して how he was feeling, telling someone: 'I'm alright thank you very much, not too bad.'

Finishing his conversation with a 患者 who will be continuing her own 治療 later, he said: 'I know the feeling.'

He is understood to be having その上の 治療 this afternoon. Charles was also 極端に keen to spread the message of the importance of 早期に diagnosis.

Several times during the visit, the King said: 'We need to get more people 実験（する）d 早期に.'

The King and Queen arrived at the hospital by car, 認めるing a large group of waiting reporters with a wave.

King Charles and Camilla 会合，会う Lesley Woodbridge, a 癌 患者 receiving the second 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of chemotherapy for sarcoma, and her husband Roger, at the hospital in London today

King Charles III 会合，会うs with 患者 Huw Stiley during a visit to the University College Hospital

King Charles 持つ／拘留するs the 手渡す of 患者 Asha Millan during his visit to the hospital this morning

Inside, where they were 推定する／予想するd to walk straight through a foyer to begin 会合 staff, they leapt straight into an impromptu walkabout.

So many 患者s had waited to see them that the hospital's 安全 staff had put up a rope 非常線，警戒線.

As they shook 手渡すs with a few dozen people, the King answered questions about his health to say he was '罰金' and thanked hospital staff for their hard work.

Shown 負かす／撃墜する to the 地階 床に打ち倒す, they were introduced to 専門家s working on a new melanoma ワクチン, and a 肺 癌 熟考する／考慮する.

They were also shown the CT scanner which has helped save 250 lives in the last two years thanks to 早期に （犯罪，病気などの）発見.

'The trouble is to get enough people 早期に,' the King said, 追加するing of the 熟考する／考慮する: 'There's so much 肯定的な news.'

について言及するing that he was worried the 王室の visit had stopped people coming in, he was 安心させるd that nobody's 治療 had been 影響する／感情d.

In their first 公式の／役人 共同の 約束／交戦 this year, the King and Queen fell into their old pattern of him 主要な the way, and her に引き続いて closely behind, usually making separate conversation.

Each asked after staff, with the King keen to hear about 転換 patterns. 'How long are you on 義務?' he asked one. 'I hope you have a lunch break.'

King Charles 会合，会うs 患者 Jo アイロンをかけるs at the University College Hospital 癌 centre today

King Charles 持つ／拘留するs the 手渡す of 患者 Huw Stiley at the hospital in London this morning

King Charles III 会合，会うs with 患者 コマドリ Gordon-Powell during his hospital visit today

As they walked through the hospital 回廊（地帯）s, they were occasionally stopped as a small （人が）群がる gathered around them.

At one point, the Queen noticed a man wearing a hospital gown trying to squeeze through, asking people to make way for him.

'I commend you for 存在 here to support us,' the 患者, who gave his 指名する as Richard, told the couple.

Upstairs, in a large room 始める，決める out with pink cushioned armchairs where 患者s were receiving chemotherapy through IV drips, the King and Queen paused at the nurses' 駅／配置する.

They asked technical questions about the methods and length of 治療 申し込む／申し出d in the hospital, 審理，公聴会 how some 患者s stay in a nearby hotel while they 完全にする it.

The King and Queen were then introduced to 患者s and their loved ones.

Lesley Woodbridge, 63, who was in for her second 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of chemotherapy for a sarcoma after the first did not work, had a long conversation with the King, while her husband Roger spoke to the Queen - all four sitting together.

After a long 雑談（する） about her 治療, and how it had 影響する／感情d their lives, the King replied to a question about how he was to say: 'Not too bad. It's always a bit of a shock isn't it when they tell you.'

King Charles 会合，会うs 患者 Jasper Keech during a visit to the hospital in London today

King Charles and Camilla 会合，会う Lesley Woodbridge, a 癌 患者 receiving the second 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of chemotherapy for sarcoma, and her husband Roger, at the hospital in London today

Camilla 会合，会うs 患者 Jo アイロンをかけるs at the University College Hospital Macmillan 癌 Centre?

The King しっかり掴むd Mrs Woodbridge's 手渡す before he left.

The King asked one male 患者 whether he was using a 冷淡な cap, a method for 保持するing the hair during chemotherapy, the King was heard to say it can 'help'.

'I'm feeling 承認する today,' the King said.

Both King and Queen asked every 患者 they spoke to about 味方する 影響s, 特に loss of appetite and taste, and tiredness.

He 発言／述べるd several times about the modern ability to adapt 治療 to the 患者. 'Adjusting, that's the thing,' he said.

The Queen made her own way to 味方する cubicles, where she sat next to 患者s for a few short, warm 交流s about their 治療.

'There's a real feeling of 静める here,' she said to Judy Parkinson, 69. 'Everybody in the same boat, everyone can identify.'

Patting her arm as she left, she said: 'I wish you the very best of luck, it's a 抱擁する 楽しみ to 会合，会う you.'

Mrs Parkinson, who laughed as she heard the moment 述べるd as 'two queens having a 雑談（する）', said: 'I like it when people speak to you 注目する，もくろむ-to-注目する，もくろむ. That's what my mum taught me, and that's what she did. Those were 本物の questions 存在 asked.'

King Charles and Queen Camilla 会合，会う staff at the University College Hospital centre today

King Charles and Queen Camilla 会合，会う staff at the University College Hospital centre today

King Charles and Queen Camilla 会合，会う staff at the University College Hospital centre today

The Queen asked others 'Does it make you very tired?' and whether they could still taste food. 'For a lot of people the food starts tasting different,' she said.

'I wish you all the best,' she said as she left. 'I'm sure you're in the very best 手渡すs.'

Jo アイロンをかけるs, 59, who spoke to both King and Queen said she had not been aware of the visit before she arrived. 'It's a welcome distraction,' she said. 'This [chemotherapy] isn't something you look 今後 to coming to.

'We talked about the 治療 and staying 肯定的な.'

The 王室の party then returned to the foyer, where around a hundred 患者s and members of staff were gathered to see them for a second walkabout.

Both King and Queen shook 手渡すs and patted people on the shoulder, 直面するing a sea of camera phones. いつかs they しっかり掴むd a 手渡す for an extra second after 審理，公聴会 that person's story.

Helen Keane, matron, said afterwards: 'The staff and 患者s are very happy to have them. They felt it was going to raise 認識／意識性, and 認識／意識性 is 投資.'

King Charles and Queen Camilla mee t staff at the University College Hospital centre today

King Charles and Queen Camilla 会合，会う staff at the University College Hospital centre today

夜明け Collier 追加するd: 'They were very 利益／興味d in the family 面 of the care too - a lot about how things are at home.'

And another member of staff said: 'We were not 推定する／予想するing it at all. We thought it would be very generic, questions about other people's 治療.

'But he was very open with the 患者s about how he was feeling. There were a lot of conversations about symptoms, and it was （疑いを）晴らす they understood - they got it.'

He is said to have told a group of Filipino nurses: 'We really can't live without you.'

王室の fan John Loughrey, 69, from London, received a wave from the King and gave the Queen a bunch of tulips and roses, telling her 'you have been a 創立／基礎 for the King'.

Mr Loughrey said Charles has given him the 'inspiration' to get 審査するd for 癌.

He said: 'The King and Queen have done impeccable work ... I've got an 任命 myself at St George's Hospital to get a mole checked.

'The King has given me inspiration to do that.'

Camilla and Cha rles leave the University College Hospital Macmillan 癌 Centre today

King Charles III arrives for a visit to University College Hospital Macmillan 癌 Centre in London with Queen Camilla this morning as he returns to public 王室の 約束／交戦s?

Charles and Camilla at University College Hospital Macmillan 癌 Centre in London today

Mr Loughrey, whose wife Marian Crean died from 肌 癌 at the age of 49 in 2003, said Charles's 告示 of his diagnosis had made him 'feel like he is not alone'.

He 追加するd: 'My late partner had 癌, I know 正確に／まさに how the King is feeling... he's 株ing to me and everyone else 影響する／感情d by 癌 that you're not alone.'

After shaking 手渡すs with dozens of 医療の staff waiting in 歓迎会 as he left, the King received a 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of 賞賛 from the NHS 労働者s.

David Probert, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of University College London Hospitals NHS 創立／基礎 信用, told the Mail: 'It was a wonderful atmosphere and the energy was very high.?

'Their Majesties were 十分な of enthusiasm in engaging with the 患者s and, very importantly, our staff, so it was a very uplifting visit and we are delighted they chose to come here today.

'He's a hugely knowledgable king and every time I speak to him I learn something new about 癌. He took 広大な／多数の／重要な 利益／興味 in our clinicians and scientists downstairs about the 最新の 革新s, 述べるing what we have as a 'golden age' in 癌 発見.

'It meant a 抱擁する 量 to our staff. This has been an incredible difficult few years for the NHS. This hospital was 権利 in the frontline of the Covid pandemic and we care for many 患者s with 癌, it's one of our biggest area of speciality.?

King Charles arrives at University College Hospital Macmillan 癌 Centre in London today

Charles smiles next to a CT scanner on a visit to the University College Hospital centre today

Charles and Camilla at University College Hospital Macmillan 癌 Centre in London today?

'And for the King and Queen to come here for their first visit was incredibly uplifting. We didn't rehearse our staff to clap and 元気づける but they were delighted to do so.'

He 追加するd: 'You could tell by the smiles and the enthusiastic comments of the 患者s that they were taking to someone who has himself been through a difficult time and it's incredibly uplifting to them.

'The Queen had a real 利益／興味 also in what we are doing here at UCLH and talked really passionately about the 問題／発行するs. It was wonderful to have her.'

He said the King took the stairs instead of a 解除する, 追加するing: 'His Majesty was 十分な of 広大な／多数の／重要な energy, engaged 前向きに／確かに. It was a 特権 to talk about all the wonderful work that is 存在 done around 癌 in the NHS with His Majesty.'