Dame Deborah James has enjoyed a visit to Royal Ascot this afternoon, joining members of her family at the society’s horse racing event.
The mother of two, who is currently receiving palliative care at her parents’ home in Woking, has been making the most of her time after revealing last month that she is no longer receiving active cancer treatment. intestine.
Recent excursions, which Dame Deborah admits have proven to be “exhausting” due to her ill health, have included seeing the opera at Glyndebourne, enjoying an out-of-hours trip to the Chelsea Flower Show and a lunch at the £ 700 a night Beaverbrook Estate in Leatherhead. Surrey.
Today, the deputy director turned activist, known as “Bowel Babe,” smiled as she sat in her wheelchair next to her brother Benjamin, similar to Prince William, and other family members as they enjoyed a flutter in the horses.
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Dame Deborah James, 40, who is receiving hospital care at her parents’ home in Woking, made the short trip to Royal Ascot this afternoon with her family.
The bowel cancer advocate, who has stopped active treatment for her own bowel cancer, posed for photos with her brother Benjamin, similar to Prince William.
The former schoolteacher, a mother of two, wore a beautiful blue and white polka dot dress and a wide-brimmed straw hat.
Ascot Racecourse is just ten miles north of Deborah’s family home in Woking, meaning that only a 30-minute drive made the trip possible.
The mother of two wore a beautiful navy blue and white polka dot dress and a wide-brimmed straw hat, and finished off her look with a pair of gold and cream gladiator-style sandals and a cream-colored handbag. game.
In addition to posing for photos with her brother and new boyfriend, Ashley Hall, whom she proposed to last month, Dame Deborah also chatted with jazz singer Natalie Rushdie, who looked glamorous with a pink ensemble. .
Earlier today, Deborah shared some of the evening drinks she has been enjoying with her family at her parents’ house.
He revealed that he was enjoying a sip of Sex on the Beach and said he plans to “work on old cocktails day in and day out” until his time comes.
The activist, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, also shared a post from In The Style urging people to get more out of their collaboration with Rebellious Hope to add an extra £ 1 million to their Bowelbabe Fund, which currently exceeds £ 6.7 million.
Deborah was photographed with her brother Benjamin, who last month proposed to her fiancé Ashley Hall, on the far right, today at Royal Ascot.
The star, who revealed she was no longer receiving active treatment for her cancer last month, was wearing a pair of gold and cream gladiator-style sandals and a matching cream bag.
“Favorite Sunset Treatment” Today! “Sex on the beach!” Dame Deborah wrote, sharing a photo of her sun-drenched cocktail.
“Maybe I should call this using all the old school cocktails day in and day out before I leave,” he added.
The picture also showed Deborah pulling out a bottle of Archers Peach Snaps.
‘Yes, that’s Archers! And yes, I grew up as an archer and lemonade was a stable social drink in college, “he added.
Sharing a photo of her table outdoors, Deborah revealed that she was enjoying a sip of Sex on the Beach and joked that “she’d be on her way with old cocktails every day” until she arrived. its time.
Lady Deborah James, 40, has joked that she will drink an old cocktail every day until she “leaves” in a bittersweet Instagram story while she is receiving palliative care at her parents’ home in Woking.
The activist, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, also shared a post from In The Style urging people to get more out of their collaboration with Rebellious Hope to add another million pounds to their Bowelbabe fund, which is currently £ 6,707,653.
Also in her story, Deborah shared a post by Adam Frisby, CEO of In The Style, the brand she collaborated with to create her Rebellious Hope T-shirts.
Proceeds from £ 15 to £ 18 will go to the Bowelbabe Fund set up by Dame Deborah to benefit Cancer Research UK.
In a passionate post, Adam said he is proud of the money the sale of the t-shirt has generated so far and encouraged people to buy more so that the charity donation can reach £ 1 million.
“We are VERY close to getting a million pounds raised for Dame Deborah’s charity @bowelbabe … A MILLION Pounds! Honestly, I’m very proud of that,” Adam wrote.
“For us raising almost ONE MILLION with Dame Deborah for charity is so special and makes me feel so proud. Having the privilege of working with someone like Debs and seeing how happy this has made her in such incredibly difficult circumstances makes that it is worth all the hard work, “he added.
Deborah replies to critics after saying “she wouldn’t die during the jubilee” because “she didn’t want Meghan to be robbed of her thunder”
Last Saturday, Dame Deborah wrote to The Sun that she was “determined not to die during the Jubilee weekend,” adding, “I don’t want Meghan to steal my thunder.”
However, on Sunday she was forced to respond to critics for the comment, and posted on Twitter: “Meghan’s comment is a joke, apparently you can still find a fun farewell in your day!”
He added: “The rest is not. Is dying the last taboo of all?
“I thought talking about poop was hard, but navigating to end-of-life care makes checking your poop easy by comparing DNR chat and respect documents!”
“Ultimately, though … we won’t raise anything if it weren’t for your support, so thank you very much!
“We’ve just replaced the t-shirts and we have a final design this week! So we want to give this last push to get over a million pounds free for charity, which will be a RECORD donation from a fashion brand,” he said. to say.
In addition to supporting fundraising efforts, Dame Deborah has been making the most of the good weather and her time at home.
On Monday, the activist posted a video of her brother Benjamin making them a Bloody Mary cocktail in the garden. She said: “Vibrations at dusk with the brother.
It’s the pickle juice that does it for me! It feels like a salad in a cocktail!
Dame Deborah James has vowed to “live while dying” after sharing snapshots of her visit to the Glyndebourne Festival Opera alongside her husband Sebastien.
She explained that she is “taking things one day at a time,” next to a photo of her at the event five years ago, when she was recently diagnosed.
Opera lover Deborah and Sebastien dressed up for La bohème at the East Sussex venue last week.
Deborah was first diagnosed with bowel cancer in December 2016 and was told early on that she was unlikely to survive beyond five years, a milestone that happened in the fall of 2021.
He explained in his post this weekend that “he was trying to see some of his favorites for the last time” while receiving attention at the end of his life.
Deborah shared two stunning images of herself in her stories, telling her fans that she had visited the opera house “five years ago a week.”
She also shared photographs showing her elegant metal set and raised a storm with her husband.
The mother of two wrote on Instagram: “Another day, bring another excuse to spend half exhausting me getting dressed to go to one of my favorite places !!!!
On Friday, she shared a picture of her eating lunch at the 700-pound Beaverbrook Estate per night in Leatherhead, Surrey and “sunbathing on her face.”
Posting the image on Instagram, Deborah subtitled it: “Happy Friday! Feeling grateful to be able to enjoy another moment of sunshine on my face and a meal that makes me smile!
“I’m just trying to find the rough diamond moments, but when you look hard enough you realize they can still be there! Thank you, as always, for your amazing messages and love. Have a good time.”
On Tuesday, Dame Deborah revealed that she was doing and enjoying Bloody Marys with her brother
The activist posted a video of her brother Benjamin making them a Bloody Mary cocktail in the garden. She said: “Vibrations at dusk with the brother.
Dame Deborah is now receiving end-of-life care at her parents ’home in Woking and has raised more than £ 6.7 million in the weeks since she announced the news after launching her Bowelbabe Fund.
Earlier this year, the mother of two, who shares her children Hugo, 14, and Eloise, 12, with her husband Sebastien, announced that she had “almost died” in hospital. calling it the “toughest” part of her 5-year battle with cancer, before giving her the heartbreaking news that there was no more treatment she could receive.
Deborah shared a post on Instagram earlier this spring in which she said, “The message I never wanted to write. We’ve tried everything, but my body just doesn’t play ball.
“My active care has stopped and I am now being transferred to the hospice at home, with my amazing family around me and the goal is to make sure I have no pain and spend time with them.”
She is receiving hospital care at her parents’ home in Woking, to save her children the difficult memories of spending their last days in the family home in London.
The news comes after he told The Sun he was “afraid to fall asleep” because he doesn’t know how much time he has left.
Symptoms of bowel cancer
– Change in bowel habits with diarrhea, constipation or feeling of incomplete emptying
– Thin or loose deposits
– Blood or mucous membranes in the stool
– Abdominal pain, swelling and cramps
– Anal or rectal pain
– Bonet in the anus or rectum
– Unexplained weight loss
– Fatigue
– Unexplained anemia
He added that he had felt a “deep love” on the part of his family, saying: “I think my family is shattered, they have all been amazing, going beyond to take care of me and take care of me.”
And speaking of his care at the end of his life, he said recently: “I feel very strongly that I do not want my children to see me agitated and distressed. I want to make sure that they see …