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Countryfile star Adam Henson has bravely opened up about his wife Charlie's pancreatic cancer diagnosis and how has it affected their family - including the heartbreaking admission that she wrote goodbye letters to her loved ones.

The television presenter, 58, revealed that the couple 'cried a lot' and decided to get married quickly after Charlie was diagnosed, seeing the wedding as a way of 'saying goodbye to everyone'.

Charlie, who is now in ongoing recovery, fell ill over Christmas 2020 and went to see a doctor when she was still unwell in February 2021. Doctors later found a 4.5cm tumour. 

The couple married in September 2021 in a ceremony in front of their closest loved ones at Stroud Registrar Office - just one day before Charlie was booked in for surgery. 

In 2023, Adam told The Mirror: 'Those vows cemented my emotions and let me say from the heart how I feel about Charlie.'

The pair had first met in their teenage years in sixth form and live together on the 1600-acre Cotswolds farm where Adam grew up - they are proud parents to children Ella and Alfie, who are now both in their twenties.

Charlie admitted marriage had never been important to her until her diagnosis, especially because at the time, she was unsure if the cancer was terminal or not.

Thankfully, it was later confirmed that Charlie had a neuroendocrine tumour, which looked operable.

She was booked in for surgery on the day after the wedding and the whole family drove down to London for the operation.

Heartwrenchingly, Charlie recalled how she prepared for the worst: 'Saying goodbye to them all at the hospital was horrible.

'Cancer is so lonely - you get all this love and support from everyone, but you're still on your own. It's so hard. 

'I'd written letters to Adam, the children and my sisters, and left them in my bedside table for them to find. 

'All I could do now was cling on to the fact that I still had a chance, however tiny.'