Headline: Princess of Wales Visits Cancer Patients After Charity Three Peaks Challenge

Date: 11 September 2026

Tags: Royal Family, Health, Cancer, Charity

Summary:

• Catherine, Princess of Wales visited the Royal Marsden hospital in London, where she previously received cancer treatment.

• Catherine completed the Three Peaks Challenge earlier this year to raise money for the hospital.

• The challenge involved climbing the highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales within 24 hours.

• Money raised will support the hospital’s new Centre for Holistic Wellbeing and Recovery.

• The total amount Catherine raised through the challenge has not been publicly disclosed.

• Catherine spoke with patients receiving treatment for breast, head and neck cancers and a brain tumour.

• She emphasised that cancer affects mental and emotional wellbeing as well as patients’ physical health.

• Catherine praised the clinical and therapeutic support she received during her own cancer treatment.

• She announced in January 2025 that her cancer was in remission.

• The new centre will provide support addressing patients’ physical, emotional, social and spiritual wellbeing.

Why this matters: Catherine is using her personal experience with cancer to support services designed to help patients beyond their clinical treatment.

What’s next: Funds from Catherine’s Three Peaks Challenge will contribute towards establishing the Royal Marsden’s new holistic wellbeing and recovery centre.