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Kate Middleton, UK’s Princess of Wales, says she is grateful after finishing chemotherapy

The 42-year-old wife of UK’s Prince William says her path to full recovery will be long, and her focus is to remain cancer free

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The princess, 42, said the last nine months had been ‘incredibly tough’ for the family. Photo: Will Warr/PA Wire via ZUMA Press/TNS

Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, said on Monday she had finished her course of preventative chemotherapy for cancer, saying the treatment had given her a new perspective and made her grateful for “simply loving and being loved”.

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Kate, 42, wife of heir-to-the-throne Prince William, had major abdominal surgery in January which revealed the presence of cancer and has been undergoing treatment since then.

In a personal message accompanying an intimate video of her with her husband and their three young children, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Princes George, 11, and Louis, 6, Kate said she would be carrying out a handful of public engagements later this year.

But she cautioned her path to full recovery would be long, and her focus was to remain cancer free.

“As the summer comes to an end, I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have finally completed my chemotherapy treatment,” she said in her message.

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