Natalie Rushdie receives support from Prince William and Kate for ‘amazing’ Bowelbabe charity song

Natalie Rushdie has revealed that she obtained the assist of the Prince and Princess of Wales for her charity music in honour of the late Dame Deborah James.

The jazz singer and daughter-in-law of Salman Rushdie honoured the most cancers campaigner, who died final yr, by re-recording a charity single from the musical Blood Brothers.

The music, “Inform Me It’s Not True”, was first carried out by Rushdie at James’s funeral final yr, after the podcast host requested her to sing for her solely per week earlier than she died on 28 June 2022.

Rushdie re-recorded the music at Abbey Highway Studios with 25 musicians and world-famous producer Haydn Bendall at James’s mother and father’ request. Proceeds from the one will likely be given to James’s Bowelbabe Fund for Most cancers Analysis, which has raised greater than £10m since its launch.

The singer just lately attended Wimbledon and was photographed talking to Kate Middleton in the course of the tennis event, after she discovered herself seated behind the princess within the Royal Field on Tuesday (4 July).

Chatting with Individuals, Rushdie stated: “I went as much as her and launched myself and simply thanked her and William for supporting the music.

“She stated that it was wonderful and that it was actually essential to William to get behind it and assist it.”

Rushdie added that, final yr, James stated she hoped she would keep alive lengthy sufficient to “get to Wimbledon”.

“Once I noticed her at Ascot, she stated, ‘I hope I get to Wimbledon’, and he or she didn’t make it, so in a manner I really feel like I’ve taken her as a result of everybody is aware of about her music and we have been all speaking about it at Wimbledon,” she stated.

“I wish to assume that someplace, [James] is consuming a glass of rose, dancing to her music and he or she would simply assume it was utterly mad!”

She described the You, Me and the Huge C podcast host as “so joyous” and as having an “unflappable power of character”.

The 2 pals met by way of their husbands seven years in the past and have become shut resulting from their shared love of musicals, wine and dancing. James died of bowel most cancers after residing with the illness for six years.

It comes after Prince William wrote in a press release to The Solar: “Her legacy will likely be numerous lives saved from bowel most cancers. Dame Debs can be so proud. She impressed the nation. I’m wishing Natalie all the easiest for her single launch to boost cash for such an essential trigger.”

The prince visited the campaigner at her residence a number of weeks earlier than she died to honour her with a damehood for her campaigning efforts.

James was additionally the creator of two books, F*** You Most cancers: The way to face the Huge C, stay your life and nonetheless be your self, and The way to stay when you might be lifeless.

She was married to Pomona Capital banker Sebastien Bowen, and shared two youngsters with him, 15-year-old Hugo and 13-year-old Eloise.