Sarah Ferguson has malignant melanoma diagnosed.

Georgesgran

I do hope that this has been caught in time. She always seems so ‘jolly hockey sticks’ to me, but this must be devastating.
On a different tack - maybe a reminder, especially to redheads about the use of the highest SPF creams and considered sun bathing?

On a different tack - maybe a reminder, especially to redheads about the use of the highest SPF creams and considered sun bathing?

Yes!

And nanna8, the number of people I see walking around in Australia with bandaged heads (men with little hair), noses, faces and other areas where they have had a melanoma removed is worrying and a sobering reminder to us all to use suncream, wear a hat and cover up if necessary.

I do hope that this has been caught in time. She always seems so ‘jolly hockey sticks’ to me, but this must be devastating.
On a different tack - maybe a reminder, especially to redheads about the use of the highest SPF creams and considered sun bathing?

Mt61

Please don’t act as if “poor Andrew” is blameless, he had a number of very questionable friends, took them into Royal Palaces, wasted huge amounts of public money on a lavish lifestyle and slept with a girl of 17 in a state where 18 was the age of consent then denied event knowing her! He is a complete waste of space frankly! His ex wife and daughters seem lovely, open and very loyal!

Nicolenet, if you don't like Sarah, OK, I respect you for that, not everyone like her, but she has CANCER, she's 64 so should have several more years left in her yet but she and all us women on here are sisters and sisters should stick together.....

Today 12:59 Nicolenet

I thought: who cares? When I read it.

And I thought “how horrible” when I read your comment!!

I actually quite like Sarah, no matter what anyone thinks of her, good or bad, she's basically a really nice lady and even though I'm 58, I love her little YouTube videos where she dresses in funny outfits reading kids stories she's written, and she's constantly by randy Andy's side even years after the divorce.

We love you, Sarah and wishing you well!

I wish her well, she was secretly my favourite! But married to my least favourite!

The royal family again under attack, the morning the toe sucking photograph was published Sarah was staying with her in-laws, her elder daughter was age 7 or 8, understandably her inlaws were shocked

Poor Sarah.. probably the stress of the media putting her through the wringer, all her married life, I think she’s been a tremendous support to Andrew- I hope they re- marry- I don’t think he’s any Jimmy Savile- just made a huge mistake having a paedo for a mate!

BlueBelle I was replying to comments on Phillip.

Unfair, the Yorks divorced after 10 years of marriage

Oh dear annibach she hasnt been in court for being best friends with a paedophile or sleeping with underage girls (or boys) has she ? a bit of toe sucking shrinks into the mists compared to that

I like Sarah - she’s got such a bubbly personality - never says a bad word about anybody. I’m so glad she was invited to Sandringham - hope all goes well for her….

Hope it ends well for her - it seems there are two things in this life we have negligable control over. The weather and health.
My Ma had a mastectomy in 1970 and our family GP told my father - because Ma couldn't face asking for the test results herself - "why didn't she come to see me earlier - she has six months at best"
(This was, of course, when we had family GP's and they could discreetly breach confidentialties when neccesary)and Dad came home and told her she was OK!
And she lasted 14 more years - probably because she wasn't told the truth.
The human mind is an amazing mystery.......

Nicolenet

I thought: who cares? When I read it.

It could happen to anyone, even you.

Wishing Sarah well, I like her and feel great empathy after all she’s already been going through this past year.
Not really the time to drag up the past.
Positive thoughts to her and her family.

What a nasty attitude Nicolenet let’s hope you never need any empathy

What? I can’t believe you can be so unpleasant as not to care that someone has cancer.

I thought: who cares? When I read it.

Just want to wish her well, I reckon we don’t know the half of what she has put up with and kept quiet about

RosiesMaw

Just to add before the doom and gloom-sayers add their twopennyworth, a good friend locally and my first ever boyfriend of 60 years ago are both successfully undergoing immunotherapy for malignant melanoma .

Immunotherapy has been a game-changer in the treatment of malignant melanoma. It was a cancer that was very difficult to treat until fairly recently.

semperfidelis

Why do we need to know? We don't!

I think we do.

Even some medical professionals are unable to recognise a malignant melanoma when they see one (we know from experience) so we should all be aware of changes in moles and skin and insist on an early diagnosis.

Raising awareness is never a bad thing.

It is not an announcement from the palace, she wanted to share the info , why not

I've always had a soft spot for her too. I remember back in 1989 she became patron of Motor Neurone Disease Association, soon after my partner was diagnosed. It was the cinderella of diseases then never talked about and no-one understood it, she chose it. She gave it some publicity so people started to understand, it meant a lot. I think we all wish her well and wish her a speedy recovery.

What a nasty post SeaWoozle. Prince Philip didn’t care for her. After his death things changed. Charles is a kind and compassionate man. I don’t know who you mean by ‘his cronies’.

Why do we need to know? We don't!