Teenage photographer with cancer who met Princess of Wales shoots fashion models in bucket list wish

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Since then, she has photographed a performance by the Royal Ballet, attended a movie premiere with Gareth Cattermole, a photographer from the Getty agency, and is scheduled to do a shoot with Rankin, the legendary British photographer, this week.

At the modelling agency shoot on Tuesday, Ms Robayna said: “When we started, Liz didn’t think we’d pull one of these things off the list and everything else has now been accomplished and more.

“She never dreamed that she would get to go to a premiere, she never dreamed that she would get to meet the Prince and Princess – none of those things felt like real possibilities. 

“So she’s had so many incredible opportunities… and is loving every minute of being able to take photos of new things.”

Liz began her photography bucket list after being diagnosed with desmoplastic small round cell tumour, which is rare and has no standard path of treatment, in January.

‘We focus on her happy days’

Her mother told The Telegraph: “We know the future is coming, but we just don’t think about it.

“Obviously in the dead of night there are times you can’t help but think about it but on the whole we get through by focusing on the next exciting thing that Liz is doing, and by thinking about the happy days that she’s had that week.

“That keeps us all going, not just Liz. As a parent, all you want are your kids’ dreams to come true.”

Ms Robayna explained that she wants her daughter to remain “focused on the things she can still do,” adding: “We’ve been really lucky, because most people at the stage of her cancer wouldn’t be travelling.”

She credited her daughter’s medical team for “pulling out all the stops” to make the fulfilment of her dreams possible.

“It’s no easy feat, it’s not like, ‘Oh take some meds.’ We’re travelling with quite an extensive drug cabinet wherever we go and [nurses] are having to administer those, but they’re all just so thrilled for her so they’re pulling out all the stops to make it happen,” she continued.

Liz said she initially told her mother there was “no point” in putting out the now viral bucket list on X, explaining that she didn’t think anybody would read it.

“But people definitely read it,” she said, “They did a lot more than that as well and for that I can only be so grateful for because even if they didn’t actively do anything, even if they just liked it or shared it … it just goes to show the kindness of humanity really.

“Kindness in general was something my whole family needed back in the time when it was posted especially, but everybody needs kindness always really.”

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