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Exchanging wedding vows with his soulmate Charlie Gilbert, Countryfile favourite Adam Henson wept uncontrollably. After almost three decades together, their pledges carried a special poignancy.<\/p>\n

For as well as celebrating their love, the couple feared their hastily-arranged wedding was Charlie\u2019s final farewell. Weeks earlier, she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and now \u2013 instead of a honeymoon \u2013 she was hours away from life-or-death surgery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cried a lot,\u201d recalls Adam, 57. \u201cThose vows cemented my emotions and let me say from the heart how I feel about Charlie.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe registrar wasn\u2019t aware of our situation and said she\u2019d never had such an emotional couple. For us, it was a way of saying goodbye to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlie, also 57, adds: \u201cAfter 28 years together you do get a bit complacent, but getting married was suddenly really important \u2013 we didn\u2019t know how long we had left, and I wanted Adam to know I was committed to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The pair had had an on-off relationship since their late teens. They got together, aged 28, eventually settling on the 1,600-acre farm west of Cheltenham, Gloucester- shire, where Adam grew up.<\/p>\n

They almost lost the farm and their home in the 2001 foot-andmouth crisis \u2013 but nothing could have prepared them for Charlie\u2019s perilous brush with death two years ago, as revealed in Adam\u2019s new book, Christmas on the Farm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a gurgly stomach through 2020, occasionally needing to quickly dash to the loo,\u201d Charlie says.<\/p>\n

Her tummy upsets worsened over Christmas 2020 and, in early 2021, she saw her GP and had stool samples analysed for a possible farm infection.<\/p>\n

The results were negative, but by May Charlie was suffering crippling diarrhoea and had lost 10lb in weight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt drained, washed out,\u201d Charlie recalls. \u201cI\u2019d sneakily Googled my symptoms and found they could indicate pancreatic cancer.\u201d Her GP recommended a hospital scan.<\/p>\n

However, in the following weeks, Charlie\u2019s symptoms stabilised. \u201cFive weeks passed and you assume no news is good news,\u201d Adam explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think if it\u2019s serious \u2013 if it\u2019s cancer \u2013 they\u2019ll ring you in a week. But this was post-Covid and they probably had a pile of results to work through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlie was home alone in August 2021 when her GP called with devastating news.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was both barrels,\u201d Charlie remembers. \u201cThe scan showed a four-and-a-half centimetre tumour on my pancreas, in a really tricky position. We knew people who\u2019d died of pancreatic cancer and I absolutely felt this was going to be the end of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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