Oliver Burton, ten, may have just weeks to live after being
hit by cancer for a third time.
Visiting the Queen at Buckingham Palace topped his list of
dream activities — but his family was told a meeting would not be possible.
So Dame Helen stepped in, bringing him in a limo to see her
West End show The Audience — in which she plays the Queen — then taking him
backstage to meet her corgis.
The actress, 67, even KNIGHTED the excited schoolboy “Sir
Oliver” during his visit, telling The Sun: “It was a pleasure and a privilege
to meet such a brave young man.”
His mum Catherine, 29, and dad James, 32, said Oliver, who
also has Down’s syndrome, truly thought the actress was the real royal deal.
Ex-Coldstream Guard James, now a full-time carer for his
son, said of the visit: “She stayed in character for the whole thing and had a
butler.
"She was really lovely.”
Oliver, from Leicester, was first diagnosed with leukaemia
in 2006, aged three.
He recovered but in 2010 the cancer returned — and once
again he pulled through.
Then last Christmas he was diagnosed with cancer in his
spine and bone marrow — and this time intensive treatment is not possible, so
he returned home with his mum, dad, and brother Ethan, six.
The family have raised £10,000 for special trips for Oliver
through the National Children’s Tumour Leukaemia Cancer Trust, which arranged
the visit with Dame Helen.
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