Zoe Ball has revealed the touching gestures Prince William made that "meant the world" to her both during her mother's illness and after her death. The presenter had to step back from her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show when her mother, Julia, died in April 2024, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. But on her podcast, Zoe revealed that Prince William wrote her two "beautiful" letters despite dealing with both his father's cancer diagnosis and his wife's. "Prince William wrote to me when my mum