In her video message released on Friday announcing to the world that she has been diagnosed with cancer, the Princess of Wales sits on a bench outside Windsor Castle in front of a row of yellow daffodils blossoming in the background behind her. As Marie Claire reported yesterday, this was intentional: many cancer organizations around the world use the daffodil as a symbol of hope for people who have been diagnosed with various types of cancer. The flower blossoms in the spring and “signals rebirth and new beginnings,” as well as “resilience and reassurance, as it returns during the same time each year,” People reports.
Us Weekly reports that there is a Daffodil Day to celebrate cancer survivors and patients, “in which individuals wear the flowers pinned onto their lapels,” the outlet writes. “Kate and her husband, Prince William, have previously [been] spotted wearing daffodil pins in solidarity.”
