By March, they were really starting to worry and Charlie says in the Daily Telegraph: "I’d gone to a friend’s house for lunch to watch Cheltenham Races on television and it was the first time I confided in others. Only Adam and my close family knew I was unwell at this point, but I’d had a really bad morning and couldn’t cover up how I was feeling."

I had to tell them I’d need time off work and the reason why. As I tried to say the words, I completely broke down. I had been trying so hard not to do it in front of Charlie, but saying it out loud really brought the enormity of the situation home." In the early stages, a tumour in the pancreas does not usually cause any symptoms, which can make it difficult to diagnose. Charlie went on her own to the scan because Covid restrictions were still in place, and she says that before going in she had a "terrible foreboding feeling". She added: "By now I had regular diarrhoea, I was washed out and drained – but the tests the GP had run were not showing anything up, nor had a colonoscopy. One final test did show that I wasn’t absorbing food properly and she prescribed a drug called Creon, which provides artificial enzymes. But I had also done what we are all told not to do: Googled my symptoms. It had brought up pancreatic cancer, so I asked if this was a possibility. She assured me that this was highly unlikely but agreed it would be sensible to organise a scan to be safe."Her mum and sisters got busy organising and they booked the first available date at Stroud Register Office. She was booked in for surgery for September 10 and the day before the couple were joined by their closest friends and relatives – who knew of Charlie’s condition – at Stroud Register Office.

yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes (jaundice) – it also may cause dark yellow or orange pee, pale-coloured poo and itchy skin Pancreatic cancer is caused by the abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells in the pancreas, a large gland that's part of the digestive system. Charlie was told by her GP that it was "highly unlikely" she had pancreatic cancer, but a scan was arranged just to be safe. She said: "While I was waiting to go in, I was overcome by a terrible foreboding, a feeling of utter fear and dread. I was absolutely convinced there was something seriously wrong. I tried to ignore it, telling myself I was just nervous, but I think from that moment, deep down, I knew I was in trouble."Adam, who owns the Cotswold Farm Park, says: "The wedding was a great distraction, giving us both something positive to concentrate on. So, for me, the full impact of what was happening only hit me at our regular Thursday morning meeting with my business partner Duncan Andrews, and the senior management team at Cotswold Farm Park. When Countryfile presenter Adam Henson's partner was given a devastating diagnosis by doctors, the couple who had been together for more than two decades decided the time was right to get married. Charlie had developed what they thought was a stomach bug over Christmas 2020, but they weren't overly worried. The next day, they said their tearful goodbyes as Charlie went in for her Whipple procedure. Adam felt "helpless" watching her walk into the hospital alone due to restrictions. The operation involved removing parts of the pancreas, gall bladder and duodenum. Adam was told that if anything went wrong during Charlie's operation, he would be called to the hospital immediately. So, when he got a call at 4.30pm saying it had gone well and his wife was "stable and in recovery", he was relieved. Two weeks after coming home, Charlie could walk half a mile, which made her feel "in control again". "I remember going out one day when it was raining heavily, and it was like the most life-affirming thing I have ever done," she remembered. "I didn't care about getting soaking wet I was alive!"

We were both stunned," Charlie recalled. "It is hard to blame medical professionals who deal with life or death every day, but when they deliver a statement like that, so matter-of-factly, the effect is devastating." Charlie revealed that she was unable to walk after the registrar "dropped that bomb", with Adam having to carry her down the corridor of Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Due to Covid restrictions, Adam wasn't allowed in with her when she had to have blood taken. She tried cutting out certain foods from her diet, but decided to head to the doctor in February when it still hadn't cleared up. There was a three-week wait for the appointment and they thought it would have cleared up by then, but it hadn't. It's ridiculous but I really, really wanted everyone to know how much I love Adam; most importantly, I wanted him to know. It was suddenly such a big thing." Adam was still trying to process what they had just heard at the hospital. His first thought was how they would manage to organise a wedding on top of everything else. But Charlie's mum and sisters took care of the ceremony, booking the first available date at Stroud Registry Office - September 9.

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Having children with Adam was our commitment to each other," she says. "A wedding had never been important. Now, suddenly, it was the most important thing in the world. It’s ridiculous but I really, really wanted everyone to know how much I love Adam; most importantly, I wanted him to know. It was suddenly such a big thing." Did you know that one sheep shearer can shear 200 sheep in a day? Or that robots can milk cows? Do you know what a beetle bank is? Or how peas are harvested?

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It was going to be an incredibly complex operation,” Adam recalls. “And he wasn’t 100 per cent sure what he was going to find, but he told Charlie he would do his best, and said she would see our grandchildren one day.”