Inspirational fighting spirit of boy given a gift by King Charles: Eleven-year-old 癌 苦しんでいる人 has 戦う/戦いd the 病気 for half his life - and had 'biggest 肺 tumour doctors had ever seen'

  • Ellis Edwards was 老年の just five when he was 診断するd with 行う/開催する/段階 4 癌?

He is the little boy who beamed ear to ear after 存在 gifted three 調書をとる/予約するs and a 巨大(な) chocolate coin from King Charles.?

Adorable Ellis Edwards, 11, won the hearts of the nation as the smartly dressed schoolboy proudly told of how he was very excited to 会合,会う the 75-year-old 君主 as Charles made his return to public-直面するing 義務s.?

But beneath the smiles, like the King, Ellis is 直面するing his own 戦う/戦い and has been fighting the 病気 for half of his life.?

Today, for a 簡潔な/要約する moment, Ellis and Charles could forget their health worries together as the little boy charmed Queen Camilla with 詳細(に述べる)s about his visits to Hamleys and the cinema.?

The youngster's mother, Carly, said the 会合,会う outside the University College Hospital Macmillan 癌 Centre in London - where inside he is receiving 放射線療法 治療 -?was a 'nice distraction' for him.?

Adorable Ellis Edwards, 11, won the hearts of the nation as the smartly dressed schoolboy received three books and a giant chocolate coin from King Charles

Adorable Ellis Edwards, 11, won the hearts of the nation as the smartly dressed schoolboy received three 調書をとる/予約するs and a 巨大(な) chocolate coin from King Charles?

But beneath the smiles, like the King, Ellis is facing his own cancer battle and has been fighting the disease for half of his life (Ellis chats with Queen Camilla outside the University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre in London)

But beneath the smiles, like the King, Ellis is 直面するing his own 癌 戦う/戦い and has been fighting the 病気 for half of his life (Ellis 雑談(する)s with Queen Camilla outside the University College Hospital Macmillan 癌 Centre in London)

The boy from Southampton 迎える/歓迎するd the King and Queen with his mother 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.'

Carly 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.'

Five years earlier, Ellis was 診断するd 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.

The 苦痛 was so excruciating it was too painful for him to eat. By the time he was 診断するd with 行う/開催する/段階 4 癌 his 負わせる had 急落するd and he 'looked like a 骸骨/概要'.

He underwent life-or-death 外科 at Southampton General hospital to 除去する the tumour.

Carly told The Mirror in 2019 doctors told her and his father Andrew to say their goodbyes beforehand in 事例/患者 he didn't pull through.?

Ellis picture in 2020. He was diagnosed aged five with a rare childhood cancer called neuroblastoma

Ellis picture in 2020. He was 診断するd 老年の five with a rare childhood 癌 called neuroblastoma

The cancerous tumour crushed his lung and the pain was so excruciating little Ellis could not eat, causing his weight to plummet

The cancerous tumour 鎮圧するd his 肺 and the 苦痛 was so excruciating little Ellis could not eat, 原因(となる)ing his 負わせる to 急落する

By Christmas 2019 he had spent a month in isolation and was undergoing his ninth gruelling round of chemotherapy

By Christmas 2019 he had spent a month in 孤立/分離 and was を受けるing his ninth gruelling 一連の会議、交渉/完成する of chemotherapy

His chances of 生き残り were just 50-50 with little boy not able to talk or open his 注目する,もくろむs.?

Parents Carly and Andrew lived in Bournemouth at the time and were making an hour long trip just to see their 勇敢な son in hospital.??

By Christmas 2019 he had spent a month in 孤立/分離 and was を受けるing his ninth gruelling 一連の会議、交渉/完成する of chemotherapy.?

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.

It was 行方不明になるd on 連続する trips to the doctor when Carly and Andrew noticed the youngster was 欠如(する)ing energy and losing 負わせる.?

He was 結局 診断するd in March 2019, 老年の just five, by which point he was a '骸骨/概要'.

The 癌 had spread 負かす/撃墜する his entire left 味方する from his shoulder blade 負かす/撃墜する to his abdomen.

The 広範囲にわたる 治療 Ellis underwent 減ずるd his 癌 by 85 per cent.

Carly said in 2020: 'We didn't realise it had been so many 任命s until we 一致するd it up and they 受託する they did make some mistakes.

'Having said that the care they've given has been amazing 一般に and we could never thank them enough.'

Ellis (front right) pictured with his brother William and parents Carly and Andrew

Ellis (前線 権利) pictured with his brother William and parents Carly and Andrew?

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.'