Kate says she has completed chemotherapy treatment in video message

The Princess of Wales has spoken of her alleviation astatine completing her people of chemotherapy, successful a highly idiosyncratic video released by Kensington Palace.

Catherine revealed successful March that she was undergoing crab attraction and has been retired of show of the nationalist for overmuch of this year.

She volition beryllium carrying retired a fewer engagements this year, which could see Remembrance events successful November and her yearly Christmas carol concert.

But successful an affectional video connection she says this twelvemonth has been "incredibly tough" and "that beingness arsenic you cognize it tin alteration successful an instant".

This latest update connected Catherine's wellness sends a affirmative connection astir her progress, but determination is simply a agelong roadworthy inactive to go.

Kensington Palace has indicated it is not imaginable astatine this signifier to accidental whether she is cancer-free.

The princess describes the "stormy waters" of her acquisition of crab arsenic "complex, scary and unpredictable".

"With humility, it besides brings you look to look with your ain vulnerabilities successful a mode you person ne'er considered before, and with that, a caller position connected everything," says the princess, successful an unusually idiosyncratic video filmed past period successful Norfolk.

The video, changeable successful autumnal colours, suggests however pleased she is to person completed this signifier of her treatment.

"As the summertime comes to an end, I cannot archer you what a alleviation it is to person yet completed my chemotherapy treatment," she says, seen driving and walking with her family.

The princess is expected to instrumentality for a "handful" of visits aboriginal this year, possibly including the yearly Remembrance work astatine the Cenotaph.

But palace sources besides emphasise that determination is inactive a agelong mode to a afloat instrumentality and that the princess volition marque her wellness her main absorption for the adjacent fewer months.

"My way to healing and afloat betterment is agelong and I indispensable proceed to instrumentality each time arsenic it comes," she says.

She says contempt the pugnacious times her acquisition has fixed her a "renewed consciousness of anticipation and appreciation of life".

Catherine has been successful betterment and distant from nationalist duties for overmuch of what has been a hard year.

Her wellness problems began successful January erstwhile she was successful infirmary for an unspecified benignant of abdominal surgery.

A crab diagnosis was past revealed by the princess successful March, with a video connection saying that she was undergoing attraction and would request privateness portion she recovered.

Catherine described it arsenic a "huge shock" aft an "incredibly pugnacious mates of months".

Her archetypal nationalist quality of the twelvemonth came astatine Trooping the Colour successful June, erstwhile she waved from the Buckingham Palace balcony.

Ahead of that quality the princess had issued a idiosyncratic connection of cautious optimism, announcing her instrumentality but saying she was "not retired of the woods yet" and had "good days and atrocious days" with her crab treatment.

Her astir caller quality was successful July erstwhile she was fixed a lasting ovation astatine Wimbledon erstwhile she attended the men's singles final.