Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden spoke about the "impact of chemotherapy" with the King as she was honoured at Buckingham Palace, she said.The Welsh dancer, who has Crohn's disease, said being formally made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to fundraising and raising awareness of inflammatory bowel disease was an "out-of-body experience" after the ceremony on Tuesday.In 2023, Dowden was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after returning from her honeym

Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden spoke about the "impact of chemotherapy" with the King as she was honoured at Buckingham Palace, she said.The Welsh dancer, who has Crohn's disease, said being formally made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to fundraising and raising awareness of inflammatory bowel disease was an "out-of-body experience" after the ceremony on Tuesday.In 2023, Dowden was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after returning from her honeymoon with husband Ben Jones and revealed in the 2024 BBC documentary Strictly Amy: Cancer And Me that she had frozen some embryos.