Princess Eugenie has issued a statement seemingly in concert with Princess Kate’s recent message.
The 35-year-old royal, the youngest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, was speaking at the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre’s at Salisbury District Hospital.
Eugenie spoke with patients and reflected on her own health journey while attending an event at the hospital’s Horatio Garden.
While there, she spoke on the healing power on nature in comments that seemed to echo the Prince of Wales own beliefs.
Princess Eugenie and Kate appear to be agreed on a key issue.
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Horatio’s Garden is a charity founded byDr Olivia Chapple in honour of her late son which builds “outdoor space for patients with spinal injuries”.
“Having worked with Horatio’s Garden, I’ve seen how the garden is so transformative for patients. Nature is so healing; hearing the sound of the birds and running water,” Eugenie explained to The Telegraph.
The royal’s comments bore a striking resemblance to Princess Kate’s words as she and William unveiled their new quarterly video series called "Mother Nature”.
"Over the past year, nature has been my sanctuary," Kate began in the Spring installment on Instagram.
Kate celebrated the healing power of nature as her 'sanctuary.'
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“The natural world’s capacity to inspire us, to nurture us and help us heal and grow is boundless. And has been understood for generations,” she continued.
“Just as nature revives and renews so too can we. Let us reconnect to nature and celebrate a new dawn within our hearts,” she added.
The Princess of Wales also shared a statement on social media alongside the film's release.
"This year's Mental Health Awareness Week, we are celebrating humanity's longstanding connection to nature, and its capacity to inspire us and help us to heal and grow in mind, body and spirit," she wrote.
Eugenie spoke candidly about her own health battle.
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She emphasised the growing importance of our connection to nature "as we confront the challenges of an increasingly complex and digital world."
The Princess signed off her message with a simple "C" for Catherine.
Kate’s ability to find “sanctuary” in nature after her own battle with cancer appeared to be in congress with Eugenie’s support for outdoor space for patients – something she lacked when being treated for scoliosis in 2002.
She explained: “All I cared about was where my parents and sister were.”
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“When you’re in a bed for as long as I was, not being able to walk to a shower, and having to be rolled around by nurses, you can’t really think past how you’re going to get out of bed," Eugenie shared.
She recalled a particularly difficult moment when she saw "someone waving to my incredible red-haired nurse through the window".
Despite it being a positive interaction, she couldn't help: "Having this feeling that I couldn’t reach them."
Many years on from that troubling time, the royal is now attempting to inspire others who had been suffering from similar conditions.
To help, she often speaks to children over the phone to help gee them up as they await spinal surgery.
“A little voice comes on the phone, and they don’t know what questions to ask. I tell them not to feel ashamed – not just of the scar but of the whole experience; bed pans, the lot,” she revealed.
