Overview

• Speaking on Oct. 8, Ball said on the Dig It! podcast that Prince William wrote to her mother during her pancreatic cancer illness and wrote again after her mother died in April 2024.
• She recounted reading the first letter at her mother’s bedside with her brother present and said it was “the most beautiful letter” that “meant the world” to her.
• Ball noted the prince reached out as his own family faced cancer, a detail she highlighted to underscore the kindness of the gesture.
• She said the memory resurfaced after she watched William’s recent interview with Eugene Levy on Apple TV.
• Ball said she will take part in a celebrity Deal Or No Deal to raise money for pancreatic cancer causes and the hospice that cared for her mother, with no palace comment reported.